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Date:      Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:59:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      doug <doug@safeport.com>
To:        wes chow <wes@woahnelly.net>
Cc:        Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: grr, stupid springforwardfallback (timed)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1020412004956.68604A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020411224909.B3095-100000@hitchcock.woahnelly.net>

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That is not exactly true. ntpd will eventually sync up a clock but it has
a maximum offset that it will apply. So it you are off by a day or two it
will be quite a while before the time will be correct. As said before
ntpdate will do this all at once.

On my laptop I use both:

   :
# Time Synchronization
ntpdate_flags="pemaquid.safeport.com"
ntpdate_enable="YES"
xntpd_enable="YES"
   :

It seems to work okay. All you ever wanted to know about Time
Synchronization Servers: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, wes chow wrote:

> 
> 
> oh by the way, I believe that ntpd will not automatically sync up a clock
> that's way off.  You need to run ntpdate once first to get it within a
> reasonable error before ntpd will fine tune it.
> 
> 
> Wes
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