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From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To: doug <doug@safeport.com>
Cc: wes chow <wes@woahnelly.net>,
	Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>,
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Subject: Re: grr, stupid springforwardfallback (timed)
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On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, doug wrote:

> 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/

ntpdate on boot may correct the clock; it won't run if ntpd is
running.

	Annelise
> 
> 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
> [cut]
> 
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