Time sync is foobar

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 12:26 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:52:09 -0500
> Steven Stern wrote:
> 
> >   service ntpd stop
> >   ntpdate nist1-chi.ustiming.org
> >   service ntpd start
> > 
> > This morning, the time is once again off.  It appears that ntp is not
> > synching time.  I see nothing unusual in /var/log/messages.
> 
> NTP suffers from acute malignant optimism about how well the
> native computer can keep time. With a clock that is rotten enough,
> NTP will never manage to sync. I have had many motherboards
> that seem to lose or gain so fast that NTP cannot fix it. I usually
> resort to running ntpdate on cron every 5 minutes to get some
> vaguely accurate time :-(.
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If your internal clock can't keep time correctly, disable it - see my
previous post

Craig


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