On 2008-08-14, Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>>There's also the theoretical possibility of a negative leapsecond,
>>but of course that's intentional.
>
> It is not supposed to step backwards then It is supposed to take a second
> seconds to move forward at a glacial pace. -- ie, if during that time the
> clock is read, it is supposed to give a later time than the previous
> reading (by a microsecond or so), but otherwise it is stopped.
>
> I guess it is true that if the time is out by more than 125ms is it it does
> step.
The default step threshold is 128ms.
This threshold may be changed with the 'tinker step N' command.
Stable release documentation:
http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.4/miscopt.html
Dev release documentation:
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/miscopt.html
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Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/
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