[Gllug] Linux ntp talking to MS Windows

[Casper Gasper]

On 04/08/06, Matthew Cooke <mpcooke3 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >
> > >    I understood that ntp can only nudge the time at a low rate, and is
> > > unable to cope with the fast drift that could occur with a dead battery
> > > hanging on the chip.
> >
> >This is true, but I think it's policy as opposed to ability. It's seen
> >as bad to step the time by too large a chunk at once, so ntpd will
> >gradually align the system clock with the actual time. If you use
> >ntpdate however, it'll just jump it directly to the current time.

 Yep, you can force ntpd to make large time changes by running it with
the -g option.  According to the man page it will by default ignore
all times where the offset is > 1000 seconds.

Casper.
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