[ntp:questions] Recommendations for having offset < N milliseconds

David Woolley david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid
Sat May 5 09:43:29 UTC 2012


Lloyd Dizon wrote:
> Hi,
> Do you have any recommendations on how to configure ntpd so that it
> reacts and resets correct time when offset increases by 100 ms?
> 

Run it in one shot mode from a cron job.  Normal ntpd mode is overkill 
for the broken platform that you describe.

Note that offset doesn't actually measure the error in the software 
clock, although, in this case it is probably quite close.



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