[ntp:questions] Meinberg NTP monitor, silly question
unruh
unruh at wormhole.physics.ubc.ca
Tue Dec 22 18:31:39 UTC 2009
On 2009-12-22, Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
> David J Taylor wrote:
>> "G8KBV" <g8kbv at nospam-uko2.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.2599f4f8b90958d1989692 at news.demon.co.uk...
>> []
>>
>> You will find that for the best performance, the NTP PC needs to be left
>> running, as initial settling is not quick.
>>
>
> "Not quick" is an extreme understatement! It takes about 30 minutes to
> get a "reasonable approximation". It can take ten to twelve hours to
> stabilize with the best possible approximation of the time. Once there
> it's good for as long as you can keep the power on and the temperature
> reasonably stable.
Yes, the time scale is about 1 hour half life (it takes about 1 hour to
halve the error). David Mills gets really
annoyed if someone points out how slow ntp is at converging. It is
definitely a feature, not a bug. That you or I could, with the first
three offset measurements, make a far better approximation to the true
time and rate than ntp does, is irrelevant.
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