* Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> [2011-06-03 08:12]:
> ntpd does not jump.

if invoked with -s it actually does, once, at startup:
> > >set local clock to Thu Jun  2 19:56:25 IST 2011 (offset 119.421739s)

> It adjusts by running the clock faster or slower.

that is of course true, after startup.

> The offsets you are seeing are newly caclulated differences between
> what ntpd thinks is the time and the clocks time. 

yup

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