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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:01:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
To:        Jacques Henry <caramba696@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910141852140.5763@tripel.monochrome.org>
In-Reply-To: <2345d18f0910140904v3e2e9f37hbaabc05cb561a19d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Jacques Henry wrote:

>>> The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is
>>> hardly enough time to see if ntpd was slewing the time.  Slewing 587
>>> seconds takes days.
>>
>
> The thing is that ntpd is not slewing the time at all, even after several
> hours!!

If I may pipe up... Can you not set the clock manually, then let ntpd take 
it from there? Seems like your clock would become synced a lot faster if 
it started out "close". Sorry if I'm being naive, but this seemed like the 
obvious thing to do.

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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