David Woolley wrote: > Uwe Klein wrote: > >> >> Does ntp serve "system" time or "correct" time to clients? > > > NTP serves system time, which its algorithms believe to be the best > practical estimate of correct time within statistical error. What we > are talking about here is making that assumption more valid during > startup transients. > > Basically, as far as NTP is concerned, there is no difference between > system time and correct time. (Earlier versions used to serve a _________________________________^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > corrected time during slew recoveries, but not during normal operation. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> That would not make a difference for the 120ms case discussed here, as > that uses the normal control loop.) The second paragraph seems to answer my question. ( afaiu ) This would implicate that clients syncing to a ( both freshly started ) slewing server will be presented with an offset that is ( to make it interesting ) slewing too. Doesn't this lead clients to first slew towards the servers offset and than in a chained way slew back to the "right" time together? ( assumed the client came up at the same time and with a better/other match ) uwe _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
