Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (95 mails)

[Ron McCall <ronald.mccall@xxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

Have you heard about many other people that have had to use NTP to keep
decent time?  This is the first machine I've ever encountered that has
had this problem.

I think you're right, NTP is pretty painless, especially since my net
connection is up all the time.  It has made 38 corrections in just under
6 hours so far ranging from about 0.25 seconds to about 4.5 seconds
depending on the execution interval which has varied from about 4
minutes to about 31 minutes.

Thanks again,
Ron

On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:48:30PM -0700, Dave Gomez wrote:
> Ron,
>     although 3 minutes a day seems extreme, I don't think it's way out
> of the ordinary either.  After reading the manual, they state that
> adjtimex is more elegant, but I also think it would take a long time
> to get it to be accurate though.  What I mean is that you would have
> to do a long time study to understand the amount of drift you have,
> make an adjustment ( or an adjustment to the adjustment) and start
> again, except with an even longer time period.  Ntp is more expedient,
> and at multiple times a day, with an open connection, no pain.
> 
> dg