Paul G. Allen wrote: > > Which again is why it is important to use NTP if you care about having > accurate system time. The problem with NTP is it can fail to adjust the > time if the hardware clock is too far out of sync with reality (or if > the server(s) can't be reached). A dead battery in a system can wreak > havoc with keeping accurate time as the HW clock would be reset at every > power cycle and NTP may not be able to cope with it.
Every NTP initialisation system I have seen runs ntpdate to cause a step adjustment before launching the ntp daemon to provide continual incremental adjustments. The hardware clock can be off by decades, and ntpdate won't care. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
