From 602a8960d859ca670b3c969540fb7b0172b3da00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: llsth Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 23:26:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Refined details --- README.rst | 19 ++++++++++--------- doc/reference | 21 ++++++++++----------- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 24a9e01..59c5e65 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -5,16 +5,15 @@ Introduction ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ntimed is a network time synchronization client for the Amiga. It is based on -the NTimed Free Open Source Software project by Poul-Henning Kamp and sponsored +the Ntimed free and open-source software by Poul-Henning Kamp, and sponsored by the Linux Foundation. It uses the NTP protocol to synchronize the local Amiga clock to a set of network server. Public available NTP servers are reachable through the Internet. -Ntimed for the Amiga works only with IPv4 networks. Your Amiga needs to be -connected to a network and to have an IPv4 address in order for Ntimed to -work. +Ntimed for the Amiga conforms only with IPv4 networks. Your Amiga needs to be +connected to a network and to have an IPv4 address. Reference ~~~~~~~~~ @@ -27,14 +26,16 @@ Template PARAM are used to show and set internal Ntimed parameters. A list of parameters will be shown when using question mark. TRACEFILE can be specified to write a -full blow-by-blow trace file, for analysis and debugging. +full blow-by-blow trace file for analysis and debugging. -TIMEZONE is used to specify local time zone. If no value is specified, time will +TIMEZONE is used to specify local time zone. If no value is given, time will be synchronized to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). A list of parameters will be shown when using question mark. {servers} is a list of NTP time servers. -SYNC will tell Ntimed to use 15 seconds to synchronizing local time and then -exit. If SAVE is specified, time will be written to hardware clock upon exit. +SYNC will tell Ntimed to spent 15 seconds synchronizing and then exit. If SAVE +is specified, time will be written to hardware clock upon exit. + +NTIMED can be stopped with CTRL C. Example 1 NTIMED ntp1.example.com ntp2.example.com @@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ Example 4 NTIMED Z EST ntp4.example.com SYNC Example 5 - NTIMED Z ? + NTIMED Z=? Public available timeservers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/doc/reference b/doc/reference index 44dfb55..d89fdb0 100644 --- a/doc/reference +++ b/doc/reference @@ -2,16 +2,15 @@ Introduction ============ Ntimed is a network time synchronization client for the Amiga. It is based on -the NTimed Free Open Source Software project by Poul-Henning Kamp and sponsored +the Ntimed free and open-source software by Poul-Henning Kamp, and sponsored by the Linux Foundation. It uses the NTP protocol to synchronize the local Amiga clock to a set of network server. Public available NTP servers are reachable through the Internet. -Ntimed for the Amiga works only with IPv4 networks. Your Amiga needs to be -connected to a network and to have an IPv4 address in order for Ntimed to -work. +Ntimed for the Amiga conforms only with IPv4 networks. Your Amiga needs to be +connected to a network and to have an IPv4 address. Reference @@ -26,16 +25,16 @@ Template PARAM are used to show and set internal Ntimed parameters. A list of parameters will be shown when using question mark. TRACEFILE can be specified to write a -full blow-by-blow trace file, for analysis and debugging. +full blow-by-blow trace file for analysis and debugging. -TIMEZONE is used to specify local time zone. If no value is specified time will +TIMEZONE is used to specify local time zone. If no value is given, time will be synchronized to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). A list of parameters will be shown when using question mark. {servers} is a list of NTP time servers. -SYNC will tell Ntimed to use 15 seconds to synchronizing local time and then -exit. If SAVE is specified time will be written to hardware clock upon exit. +SYNC will tell Ntimed to spent 15 seconds synchronizing and then exit. If SAVE +is specified, time will be written to hardware clock upon exit. -NTIMED can be stopped with CTRL+C. +NTIMED can be stopped with CTRL C. Example 1 @@ -45,13 +44,13 @@ Example 2 NTIMED TRACEFILE=RAM:trace TIMEZONE=CEST ntp1.example.com Example 3 -NTIMED P "foo=20,pollrate_25" T T:trace ntp7.example.com +NTIMED P "foo=20,poll_rate=25" T T:trace ntp7.example.com Example 4 NTIMED Z EST ntp4.example.com SYNC Example 5 -NTIMED Z ? +NTIMED Z=? Public available timeservers