also sprach Time <time@clockbot.net> [2002.09.15.0309 +0200]:
> I'm looking at the man page for ntpdate(1) and it explains that anything
> under .5s will be slewed using the adjtime() system call, which from
> what I gather, happens over a period of hours?
>
> How is ntpdate running from your box?
I've tried the -b option but with no success. Also, ntpdate manages to
set the time correctly. But then the system clock will run slow again
until I use ntpdate again to get it back to sync.
It's quite annoying, especially because the running ntpd *cannot* do
anything against it.
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