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Time check question #13488 12/31/10 07:57 AM
Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 15 artie505 OP
OP artie505 Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 15	I recently found a log that had a record of something other than ntpd checking the time every hour, but I've gone through Console from top to bottom, and I can't find it again; does anybody know what/where it is? The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button. In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire

Re: Time check question artie505 #13498 12/31/10 06:11 PM
Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 16 Fort Worth, Texas joemikeb Moderator
joemikeb Moderator Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 16 Fort Worth, Texas	Can you provide any clues like an excerpt from the log where you found this mysterious task? If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? — Albert Einstein

Re: Time check question joemikeb #13499 12/31/10 06:39 PM
Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 15 artie505 OP
OP artie505 Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 15	Unfortunately, no. The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button. In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire

Re: Time check question artie505 #13507 12/31/10 07:10 PM
Joined: Aug 2009 Iowa Virtual1
Virtual1 Joined: Aug 2009 Iowa	Originally Posted By: artie505 I recently found a log that had a record of something other than ntpd checking the time every hour I'm fairly sure I'm reading that wrong. Can you double check that says what you think it says? MOST logs have 'something other than ntpd checking' in them. I work for the Department of Redundancy Department

Re: Time check question Virtual1 #13508 12/31/10 07:19 PM
Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 15 artie505 OP
OP artie505 Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 15	Clarification... I know that ntpd checks time, but the hourly time checks to which I'm referring did not reference it. I remember having had two time checks allowed in Little Snitch at one time, ntpd being one, and ???, the other. The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button. In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire

Re: Time check question artie505 #13509 12/31/10 07:26 PM
Joined: Sep 2009 10.6.8 (build 10K549) Hal Itosis
Hal Itosis Joined: Sep 2009 10.6.8 (build 10K549)	But "checking the time" for what purpose? ntpd corrects the system when it drifts... and everything else that needs the "right" time just asks the system. Are you saying this other thing also corrected the system when it got out of sync? If not, then why?

Re: Time check question Hal Itosis #13521 01/01/11 10:03 AM
Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 15 artie505 OP
OP artie505 Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 15	Sorry, Hal, but I just haven't got any answers; I was in the middle of doing something else when I stumbled on that log, I promptly forgot everything about it except that it looked like it was checking the time once every hour, and now that I want to take a good look at it I can't find it again. I was hoping somebody would know what I was talking about, but I guess I'll just have to keep looking and report back if (hopefully when) I get lucky. The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button. In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire

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