Re: [Help-bash] set time

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 04:10:34PM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
>  I often have wild drifts in my virtual machines, the sort that ntp
> can't deal with and internet access is quite often not available
> (thus, no ntpdate either).

I don't know much about virtual computing.  Can't you at least sync the
virtual machines to the host OS's clock?

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> So I use a script that shifts the time by one second or more every few
> or several seconds (depending on the situation) based on my algorithm
> (which would become too mathematically complicated to me, at least for
> the time I afford to give it, if some of its steps themselves take an
> unpredictable *and* non-negligible number of milliseconds to run). I
> use date -s "$intv seconds" (as one your replies suggested) and, while
> it's far from perfect, it's making the situation much more manageable,
> as at least I'm running just one command.
> 
> Certainly, if you could help me find another approach to this, that
> would be great.