[ntp:questions] Idea to improve ntpd accuracy

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sun Feb 28 21:43:05 UTC 2016


elliott.ch at comcast.net said:
> Thank you very much for the paper reference on temperature compensation. The
> paper and its results are excellent.  A self-calibration feature (that
> worked) so that each user could have it configured for his/her own computer
> should not be too hard to implement.  I wonder why NTPD never picked it up? 

You need a temperature sensor mounted right on the crystal.  Most people 
aren't willing to go that far and/or ntpd works well enough without it.


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