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Date:      Thu, 08 Oct 1998 21:25:15 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is tickadj still required in -CURRENT ? 
Message-ID:  <7034.907874715@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Oct 1998 12:20:58 PDT." <199810081920.MAA23658@austin.polstra.com> 

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In message <199810081920.MAA23658@austin.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes:
>> >The original question was "can tickadj be removed". You answered no.
>> 
>> Sorry, misunderstanding there, yes I think it can be removed.
>
>It is still useful on 486 machines using the "-t nnnn" option to
>correct for badly inaccurate clocks.  I don't know of a replacement
>for that.  Even when running xntpd, this usage of tickadj keeps
>the /etc/ntp.drift value within the range claimed to be robustly
>compensated by xntpd.

Uhm, sorry, no longer true, tickadj has nothing what so ever to
do with what time it is any more...

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal

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