I'll pass this on, thanks.
Ralph Mitchell wrote:
Does your ntpdate have the -B option?? If so, it can make the adjustment slowly.
From the Gentoo Linux manpage:
-B Force the time to always be slewed using the adjtime()system call, even if the measured offset is greater than +-128 ms. The default is to step the time using settimeofday() if the offset is greater than +-128 ms. Note that, if the offset
is much greater than +-128 ms in this case, that it can take a long time (hours) to slew the clock to the correct value.
During this time. the host should not be used to synchronize clients.From the NOTES section of the adjtime(3) man page:
The adjustment that adjtime() makes to the clock is carried outin such a manner that the clock is always monotonically increasing.
Using adj- time() to adjust the time prevents the problems that can be caused for certain applications (e.g., make(1)) by abrupt positive or
negative jumps in the system time.Ralph Mitchell
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