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Subject: Re: clock too slow - big time offset with ntpdate
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On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:50:10PM +0200, Martin Dieringer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I get about half a second time offsets after 10 seconds, and more
> than 100s after half an hour or so.
> I think it has to do with powerd, if I kill that, the time stays correct.
> It happens both on a Compaq nc4000 and an IBM ThinkPad T42p laptop.
> 
> Can this be solved?
> thanks
> m.

You have the option of running ntpd instead of ntpdate. This assures a
continous polling against the server. IIRC ntpd would solve the clock
skew via ntp.drift.


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