On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 05:32:04PM +0000, H. Hartzer wrote:
> On Mon Dec 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM UTC, Dorian Buettner wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:37:02 +0000
> > "H. Hartzer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Dec 29 05:19:23 myhost ntpd[50297]: adjusting local clock by
> >> 519.109281s Dec 29 05:20:27 myhost ntpd[50297]: adjusting local clock
> >> by 518.792356s
> >>
> >> Right after it adjusts the local clock, I check, and it's still 518~
> >> seconds behind.
> >
> > man ntpd - adjustment ("adjusting", progressive form iirc) is ongoing,
> > by speeding up or down your local clock until it matches ntp time
>
> I see, thank you! I noticed that it seemed to adjust it by maybe a half
> second per minute.
>
> I think the log message is very confusing. Maybe it should say:
>
> adjusting local clock by 0.49 seconds (518 seconds to go)
>
> -Henrich
>
"Adjusting" is fine, it already signals that the action will take some
time. Otherwise the message would have said: "adjusted the clock", or
"setting the clock".
-otto
