On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:17 PM, William Unruh <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is superior in that you can do it easily. Whether that is of any > importance to you is of course up to you. Myself I have never used it. > As is often the case you completely miss the point. > Fine. It has already been written for chrony. For those that want it, > this is an advantage for chrony. I could argue that ntpd is > no better than nothing because I could write a program to do what ntpd > does. While (possibly) true, it is a silly argument. > If there's an real use case for the feature then writing a few lines of some scripting language to implement an equivalent solution for NTPd is not a significant effort. If such an add-on was available for NTPd would you stop or would you continue asserting that Chrony has some unproven advantage. And until someone shows the level of correction you can expect then it remains unproven speculation. > > (assuming the presense does not mess other things up). > Yeah there's always that. > Your wristwatch may well be a much better ticker than the localclock > Well mine isn't but that wasn't the point. Come back when you have real measurements of an end-to-end system. I don't care about the time source. You assert that there's an advantage to disciplining a clock by hand versus free-running. So come back in a year and tell me how it went. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
