On 06/28/2014 04:32 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 6/28/2014 12:37 PM, James Knott wrote:
I run NTP to set my computer clock and the time is displayed on the task bar. I can also check the time on a U.S. government web site and on a clock that's synced to WWVB, the U.S. National Bureau of Standards time signal. My computer clock tends to be about a half second behind the other two. I though NTP was supposed to be able to do better than that. I connect to the time.nrc.ca NTP server, which is run by the National Research Council in Ottawa, which is the primary time standard for Canada.
See this web page: http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/network_time.html
They stopped serving time.nrc.ca a few years ago. 2011.
You need to change your NTP settings. I suspect if you go to the command line you will find you are not synced at all, and you are running from your existing computer clock.
You don't need a Canadian one, even the North American pool NTP sources work fine you set your timezone. (And its generally frowned upon to point all your machines at the either Research Canada or NIST, because of server load. That is what pool NTP servers are for, and also most universities have NTP servers synced to the national servers.
I saw that notice years ago. It says they switched from the old "time" protocol to NTP, which is what I'm using. Also, given it's a primary time source, equivalent to the NIST in the U.S., it should be fully accurate. As for pool servers, they can be slightly less accurate, IIRC. The University of Toronto has two servers, "tick" and "tock" ;-). Incidentally, that time.nrc.ca is intended to be a public access clock. There are many other NTP servers with restricted access. The NRC also has other methods for getting a more accurate clock than that server. Of course, this doesn't change the fact that an Android phone, also configured to time.nrc.ca, agrees with the 2 NIST sources. The only variable here that could be causing the difference is openSUSE. My phone is connected, via WiFi, to the same network as my computer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org