On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 23:16, Rob van der Heij wrote: > At 23:14 05-01-03, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > >The poll interval has to do with polling network time servers using the NTP > >protocol. This is usually on the order of minutes rather than seconds. > >The 1-second interval is to wake up and tend to the local system clock. > > You lost me. If it probes servers every few minutes, what useful things can it do >every second?
NTP monitors time between nodes including peers with better quality of time then adjusts the rate of forward progress of the local clock to try and match the global view of time. Clocks drift rather than jump so you just have to track the drifts
