Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:01:06 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled Message-ID: <20110211220106.766288e5@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=9Au2qe%2BJtgRH4TmVjMrpvv4JEywZLcuqbND2g@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110211221648.03c65a04@dijkstra> <AANLkTi=9Au2qe%2BJtgRH4TmVjMrpvv4JEywZLcuqbND2g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:13:43 -0800 David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe <cjr@cruwe.de> > wrote: > > Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early. > > My /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin > > and I have set both ntpd_enable="YES" and ntpd_sync_on_start="YES". > > ntpd has a sanity check -- if the clock is out by more than 1000 > seconds it will give up. So you may have to manually set the clock to > something close to correct before ntpd will handle it. Or pass ntpd > the "-g" flag to disable the initial sanity check, That's what ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" does.
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