Re: How fast should chrony close the time gap?

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com>]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 04:44:51PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
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> I have a server which is using ntp to synchronise with the outside world with 
> ntp.  
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> My clock on my workstation seemed to get badly wrong this morning after 
> playing a dvd with xine.  It did not correct itself (I had been using 
> ntpdate), so I installed chrony (which removed ntpdate). I manually changed 

I don't think there should be a conflict between these two. In fact, chrony should
be using ntp to do the grunt work of talking to time server.

> the clock (using date -s) but of course it was not exactly correct.  In fact, 
> by running date in two terminal windows, one via ssh to the server, one 
> locally I can see that the difference is approximately (+- 1 second) 42 
> seconds adrift.
> 
> Now, 6 hours later that time is still 42 seconds out.  
> 
> How long does it take chrony to start relying on the server time and start 
> correcting the clock?
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This is way too long. There is something wrong with your installation.

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> Alan Chandler
> alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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Paul E Condon           
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