[ntp:questions] Red Hat vote for chrony
William Unruh
unruh at invalid.ca
Tue Dec 9 08:24:29 UTC 2014
On 2014-12-09, Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
...
> [ ... ]
>> Of course, in an ideal system designed for clock stability, the clock
>> variation with temperature would be measured, and an offset based on
>> the temperature of the crystal applied directly to the output of the
>> clock itself, before it was supplied to the operating system.
>
> Yes; you're describing calibrating a temperature-compensated XO, or TCXO.
There are also versions of ntp which have a temp
compensation/measurement system compiled in to apply to the clocks. It
does tend to give much better control of the clock than regular ntpd
apparently.
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