RE: Help understanding NTP behaviour

[Ross Halliday <ross.halliday@wtccommunications.ca>]

> An offset of almost 1 second suggests that the GPS receivers are using
> a pulse-per-second for high accuracy, but are have synched their
> ticking to the wrong second.  In other words, they know when each
> second of UTC ticks, just their clock is one second out to start with.

Thanks, it makes sense that these devices would be so slow (sounds plausible to me, anyway) as they weren't supposed to be clocks originally. Even so, why would my server keep changing the offset? Should it not remain constant?

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