2011/3/26 Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com:
I am curious to know, if there is a single machine and uses ntpd as a client for the main ntp.pool.org server then suppose the internet is down, what time will the computer reference to?
Each computer has its own on-board clock, with its own power. Ntpd is only a way to set this clock to some reference clock's time.
that my Reliance CDMA phone sets its clock on the time from the tower. When there is no signal in an area and I start the mobile, it show me 2355 at any time of the day, till it gets a signal tower.
Who knows? Perhaps a Reliance quirk. I don't think the mobile operators are very particular about serving accurate time to phones. I prefer to set my phone's time manually than depend on the operator.
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