Can't set clock

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 05 January 2009, Derek Broughton wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>I managed by typing:
>>>sudo ntpdate oceania.pool.ntp.org
>>>and that is also the timeserver I have set the "systray" clock to use
>>
>> And you are beating on a single machine, remove the 'oceania.' part and
>> let the ntp dns server spread the load.
>
>No, he's not.  The regional time servers are also using round robin DNS -
>it's just a smaller pool than pool.ntp.org.  I would think if "oceania" is
>your region, the latency in getting to many of the large servers might
>interfere with getting a reliable time setting (though I know the ntp
>protocol tries very hard to take care of that).

Thanks for the heads up on regional servers.  How do I go about getting such a 
list for my own use?

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