Miguel Gonçalves <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 16 November 2011 12:47, David J Taylor
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> >
> > Certainly doesn't apply to my iPad2. Currently 40.8 seconds out under
> > 5.0.1. Sinful it doesn't use NTP ( I suppose you know who didn't approve
> > of NTP, since it wasn't under Apple's firm grip).
Apple run their own NTP servers and ship their Macs configured to use them
to sync time.
> I own a Mac Mini and a MacBook. Their NTP implementation is simply a joke.
> Even with a local stratum 1 I can't get decent accuracy. :-(
I believe the Mac NTP client is shipped with a very large maximum polling
interval. Try reducing it.
Also, ntpd does not work well on machines that are often suspended. I
don't know if Apple have done anything to fix that.
Tony.
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