Unruh wrote: > "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...@comcast.net> writes: [...] >>I'd be very cautious about using a drift file that was much more than >>one hour old. If the environment (temperature) has remained constant >>you are probably okay but the greater the length of time you are down >>the greater the uncertainty of the time you will start up with. > > On Linux these days, even a drift file that is 10 sec old is useless, > since the system clock drift rate changes by up to 50PPM over a reboot.
... which would not even be noticed if ntpd would initially apply corrections faster. Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
