On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 05:47:09PM -0700, Kevin Wang wrote:
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:47:14 +0100, Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org wrote:
It takes a while to synchronise properly. Give it time.
For the record, it takes 10-15 minutes for ntpd to fully synchronize with its specified servers.
It might be quicker than Paul expects. On a test box, I stopped the ntpd service and forced the local time-of-day to be about 10 min ahead of a box with very good time.
Then back on the test box I restarted ntpd
# service ntp start
Watching the time with a loop and ssh.
======================== Tue Oct 12 18:02:32 PDT 2004 local known good Tue Oct 12 18:14:27 PDT 2004 ======================== Tue Oct 12 18:03:02 PDT 2004 local known good Tue Oct 12 18:03:03 PDT 2004 ======================== Tue Oct 12 18:03:33 PDT 2004 local known good Tue Oct 12 18:03:33 PDT 2004
So wall time can be very good inside of a min.