[ntp:questions] What is the NTP recovery time from 16s step in GPS server?

David Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid
Tue Oct 30 20:42:08 UTC 2012


On 30/10/2012 20:06, David Woolley wrote:
> David Taylor wrote:
>> On 30/10/2012 17:57, David Woolley wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks, David.  Do you think that it would still be 20 minutes when
>> the clock in question is being polled every 16 seconds?
>
> The starting point, without using tinker stepout, is 15 minutes.  To
> that you have to add the time to get a best sample with the new time,
> and, possibly, the time to reload the sample FIFO.
>
> This is certainly the case for external sources.  I think it is true for
> reference clocks.

Thanks, David.  I see Bill also has a response.  I can see that I may 
have to test this experimentally.  I sincerely hope that ~20 minutes is 
wrong!
-- 
Cheers,
David
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