Re: New Conduit: SyncTime!

[Branson Matheson <Branson.Matheson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 11:46:02AM -0800, Alan Harder wrote:
> 
> Chris Ice had an idea a while back to set the time/date on the Pilot with
> the time from the workstation to keep them in sync.  Plus, if you use NTP
> or rdate to keep your workstation time accurate then your pilot will also
> be accurate..
> I finally got around to checking into this, and it turned out to be a one
> liner: $pilot->setTime(time);
> 
> So I threw together SyncTime.. I added options for how often you want the
> time set (always, daily, weekly, monthly)
> 
> One minor bug- although it seems to work fine, I see a couple cryptic
> messages in my terminal window ("Got tickled", "Wrong packet type on queue").
> I'm working with the pilot-link author to resolve this.. once I have I'll
> include SyncTime in with PilotManager..
> For now, if you'd like to try it out you can get SyncTime from the conduits
> section of the web page
> http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/binaries/conduits

 Is there ANY work being done on pilotmanager to make it work OUTSIDE
 of CDE? I can use ical for the calendar, but some of this
 functionality sounds really cool and I would LOVE to have it for my
 Fbsd box.

  - branson

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