[ntp:questions] ntpdate removal is coming

Steve Kostecke kostecke at ntp.org
Fri Dec 9 14:55:17 UTC 2011


On 2011-12-09, Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org> wrote:

> On 2011-12-08, Bruce Lilly <bruce.lilly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:14:28 +0000, Harlan Stenn wrote:
>>
>>> Bruce wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2) ntpd converges to a stable point that much faster (i.e. it has
>>>> less of an initial offset to remove)
>>>
>>> At the moment, the worst case for this is an offset that is just
>>> under 128ms, which will take under 5 minutes to apply at the
>>> standard slew rate of 500ppm. (64ms will take about 2.5 minutes'
>>> time to apply, etc.)
>
> functional equivalentfunctional equivalent

Ooops ... missed a botched edit. What I had intended to write was:

This seems out of place in a discussion about replacing ntpdate.

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Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org>
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