From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 17 17:40:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA05096 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:40:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ix.netcom.com (sil-wa4-12.ix.netcom.com [207.93.136.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA05088 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:40:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from tomdean@localhost) by ix.netcom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA01149; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:40:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tomdean) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:40:22 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199712180140.RAA01149@ix.netcom.com> From: Thomas Dean To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Time Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have been looking at time on my machine. It appears to track fairly well, except when I attempt to set the time too often. If I set the time about 5 to 6 times per week, I see steps of about .5 second. However, if I set the time two times in about 8 hours, the step is large. Does this make sense? I booted the machine about 0830 on Dec 17. I manually ran ntpdate as root. Here is the output: # ntpdate bigben.cac.washington.edu 17 Dec 09:04:20 ntpdate: step time server 140.142.16.34 offset 1.536999 # ntpdate bigben.cac.washington.edu 17 Dec 17:31:08 ntpdate: step time server 140.142.16.34 offset 4.306211