On Sep 26, 12:11 pm, Evandro Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The fact remains that W32TIME is doing a "better" (your definition may
> vary) job than NTP to keep my system time in "lock-step" (your
> definition may vary) with a reference.

I think I found out why NTP couldn't manage.  I figured that as it was
stepping every 20min by 0.45s, approximately, it would be the
equivalent of an error of roughly 350PPM, or well within the
capabilities of NTP.

So I checked out the contents of the drift file: 450PPM.  In other
words, NTP was over compensating!  I deleted the drift file and fired
up NTP after stopping W32TIME.  It's now keeping the time in sync
pretty well: http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3609/peerstatscf6.png
(never mind the spike, when the system lost network connection).

The only reason I can think of how NTP got such a huge drift was
during installation.  Although the package states that its stopping
W32TIME, somehow it didn't, as I noticed a few hours later.  A short
time, yet it seems to have done damage enough.

Thanks.

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