Richard wrote: > NTPD needs something like thirty minutes before it is able to serve a > reasonable facsimile of the correct time. It needs up to ten hours > after startup to deliver the highest quality time that it is capable of.
Well, that's true for cold-start, with no drift file. But it's not the normal case, at least for a properly set-up and configured system. I am used to seeing this reduced to 11 *seconds* if you have a good drift file and run iburst. > The corollary to this is that you can't expect NTPD to run 9 AM to 5 PM > and deliver the best possible quality of time. If you want the best > possible accuracy, you run NTPD 24x7. Yup. H _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
