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Old 06-24-2008, 09:05 PM   #1
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ntp question


Why won't ntpd update the software clock if the time difference is too great? Does anyone know what this difference is?
 
Old 06-25-2008, 03:25 AM   #2
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ntpd is designed to skew the clock slightly so that there are no time lapses - in other words, time is always increasing (it never jumps backwards). If the gap is too large, it would take too long to skew the time by adjusting the interval of a tick.

Use ntpdate to make large jumps - this is often done before starting the ntpd daemon at system startup.
 
  


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