gkrellmd time synchronization problem + deci-seconds clock

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

Hi, I am trying to synchronize the time between two boxes. I'm playing
with ntp*.

* If you know of any digital X-based clock program that displays in
deci-seconds (or finer) resolution, I would very much like to know.

* The problem below had me totally off-track for literally the last few
weeks, to my (right this moment) great frustration: gkrellmd has a
sycnhronization/ wraparound display problem with the clock.

This is what happens: every so many, eg. 15, seconds, the clock pauses
for a second. Then it some time (eg. 15 seconds) later it skips forward
two seconds instead of one.

I've tried setting the update frequency on the gkrellm client and server
to be the same, and tried both low (3Hz) and high (20Hz) frequencies.
They all display essentially the same problem.

Here's an obvious solution that would be satisfactory, within the
tolerance of (most people's) human vision:

* have an option to display tenths-of-a-second (ie. an extra order of
precision - deci-seconds or whatever they're called), and perhaps also
have a recommendation in the README for gkrellmd that for reasonably
accurate time keeping, use "deci-seconds + 10Hz update frequency"
(assuming of course that this actually works :).

If there is any hope of getting such a feature added, I will send you a
triple-smiley and lots of appreciation.

If there is a hope, or a better GUI way to monitor my servers, please
let me know.

tia
zen