[ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

[Terje Mathisen]

romain.cordonnier at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have the same need as Cristian.
>
> I am working on a data processing project which is designed to run
> for 25 years.
>
> The customer wants us to run data processing simulation at any time
> (past/present/future) from 2018 to 2043.
>
> Is to possible to build-up a fake "stratum 0" NTP server ?

There is a project which created just what you need a fake-ntp which 
sits between a real NTP server and a subnet which needs to fake a 
different time period, it works by always adding/subtracting a 
configurable offset between the external time and the time it returns to 
an ntp client.
...
I can't find it now, but there is at least one github project which 
seems like it could be helpful, it is written in Python:

https://github.com/olavmrk/fake_ntp_server

Terje

>
> What are the config options to force the ntp clients to synchronize
> immediately to the fake source ?
>
> Steve suggests "Undisciplined Local Clock driver ", any other
> suggestion ? The time diffusion will be restricted to the project
> servers (worldwide), it will not be seen by internet.
>
> Thanks in advance !
>
> Romain
>


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