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Re: What package contains the time daemon? (approx vs ntp)



L'octidi 8 thermidor, an CCXXIII, Paul E Condon a écrit :
> Also years ago, and still today, there is chrony which does a much
> more sophisticated analysis of the data stream of repeated queries of
> an ntp server. In addition to setting the local clock to the
> same time as the external reference clock as is done by both ntp and
> ntpdate, approx computes an estimate of *rate* of ticking of the local
> clock.

Unless I am mistaken, nowadays the kernel does that by itself, provided the
NTP client uses adtime() or a variant and not a brutal settimeofday().

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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