On 9 December 2017 at 09:40, Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2017-12-08, Darren Tucker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If your hardware doesn't have a clock (or the clock is bad) then it can > > take ntpd a long time to adjust it back to the correct time (it uses > > adjtime(), which I think adjusts at +/- 10%). > > Actually, 5000 parts per million, so 0.5%. > ntp_update_second(int64_t *adjust) [...] if (adjtimedelta > 0) adj = MIN(5000, adjtimedelta); else adj = MAX(-5000, adjtimedelta); I sit corrected :-). -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at dtucker.net) GPG key 11EAA6FA / A86E 3E07 5B19 5880 E860 37F4 9357 ECEF 11EA A6FA (new) Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.
