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Date:      Sat, 6 Apr 2002 09:18:40 -0500
From:      "Casey Scott" <casey@nixfusion.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   ntpd
Message-ID:  <000701c1dd75$f3b1c330$0601a8c0@nixfusion.com>

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    The following messages log entries are concerning me. I don't know if I
should interpret it as the system isn't updating it's time properly, or it's
time keeping mechanism is bad.

Apr  6 00:09:19 spareparts ntpd[12778]: kernel time discipline status 2040
Apr  6 00:12:43 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -72.208070 s
Apr  6 00:12:43 spareparts ntpd[12778]: kernel time discipline status change
2041
Apr  6 00:34:02 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -71.751602 s
Apr  6 00:51:18 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -70.855702 s
Apr  6 01:09:32 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -69.938346 s
Apr  6 01:26:46 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -69.033806 s
Apr  6 01:42:51 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -68.149020 s
Apr  6 02:00:04 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -67.230867 s
Apr  6 02:17:13 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -66.324598 s
Apr  6 02:41:46 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -65.367397 s
Apr  6 02:59:00 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -64.338242 s
Apr  6 03:19:21 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -63.355782 s
Apr  6 03:35:37 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -62.464309 s
Apr  6 03:56:01 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -61.472339 s
Apr  6 04:15:18 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -60.512887 s
Apr  6 04:31:19 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -59.651892 s
Apr  6 04:48:32 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -58.749998 s
Apr  6 05:05:36 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -57.872887 s
Apr  6 05:22:43 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -56.942257 s
Apr  6 05:45:14 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -55.909788 s
Apr  6 06:02:31 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -54.998330 s
Apr  6 06:25:09 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -54.157019 s
Apr  6 06:34:50 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -53.274896 s
Apr  6 06:58:22 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -52.248662 s
Apr  6 07:14:29 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -51.331915 s
Apr  6 07:37:01 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -50.367300 s
Apr  6 07:48:49 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -49.530241 s
Apr  6 08:04:54 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -48.663439 s
Apr  6 08:26:22 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -47.709321 s
Apr  6 08:41:21 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -46.791000 s
Apr  6 09:04:57 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -45.934261 s
Apr  6 09:12:26 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -45.155585 s

    Isn't the system suppose to adjust it's time after the ntp query
provides the correct time? Why does it only seem to be getting better a
second or so at a time? I would appreciate any advice.

Thanks in advance,
Casey


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