[ntp:questions] ntpdate steps 86400 seconds

K.Dinh.P home2_kdp at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 30 06:41:09 UTC 2005


I have a question concerning ntpdate. I synchronize to a timeserver using 
crontab with ntpdate v4.1.1. The syslog is shown below:

Sep 23 23:57:00 xxx ntpdate[7160]: adjust time server 10.168.214.100 
offset -0.018167 sec

Sep 23 23:58:00 xxx ntpdate[7163]: adjust time server 10.168.214.100 offset 
0.011571 sec

Sep 23 23:59:00 xxx ntpdate[7167]: adjust time server 10.168.214.100 offset 
0.000305 sec

Sep 24 00:00:01 xxx ntpdate[7176]: adjust time server 10.168.214.100 
offset -0.008321 sec

Sep 25 00:01:00 xxx ntpdate[7226]: step time server 10.168.214.100 offset 
86400.000773 sec

Sep 25 00:02:00 xxx ntpdate[7232]: adjust time server 10.168.214.100 
offset -0.006971 sec

Sep 25 00:03:01 xxx ntpdate[7285]: adjust time server 10.168.214.100 offset 
0.011816 sec

Sep 25 00:04:00 xxx ntpdate[7288]: adjust time server 10.168.214.100 
offset -0.002207 sec

Sep 25 00:05:00 xxx ntpdate[7291]: adjust time server 10.168.214.100 
offset -0.007892 sec

Sep 25 00:06:00 xxx ntpdate[7338]: adjust time server 10.168.214.100 offset 
0.010497 sec

Sep 25 00:07:01 xxx ntpdate[7341]: adjust time server 10.168.214.100 
offset -0.014260 sec

Sep 25 00:08:01 xxx ntpdate[7344]: adjust time server 10.168.214.100 offset 
0.013051 sec

Sep 25 00:09:00 xxx ntpdate[7347]: adjust time server 10.168.214.100 
offset -0.015531 sec

Sep 25 00:10:01 xxx ntpdate[7350]: adjust time server 10.168.214.100 offset 
0.019941 sec

Sep 25 00:11:00 xxx ntpdate[7353]: Can't adjust the time of day: Invalid 
argument

Sep 25 00:12:00 xxx ntpdate[7356]: Can't adjust the time of day: Invalid 
argument

Sep 25 00:13:00 xxx ntpdate[7359]: Can't adjust the time of day: Invalid 
argument

Sep 25 00:14:00 xxx ntpdate[7362]: Can't adjust the time of day: Invalid 
argument

Sep 25 00:15:01 xxx ntpdate[7367]: Can't adjust the time of day: Invalid 
argument



Why does it suddenly begin to step with +86400 seconds? This suddenly 
happens every day around midnight. Furthermore the adjustment seems to go on 
for a while. It ends to not to be able to adjust the time. The time server 
on 10.168.214.100 has not been changed in that period.





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