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 out in 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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