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Subject: Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Jacques Henry wrote:

>>> The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is
>>> hardly enough time to see if ntpd was slewing the time.  Slewing 587
>>> seconds takes days.
>>
>
> The thing is that ntpd is not slewing the time at all, even after several
> hours!!

If I may pipe up... Can you not set the clock manually, then let ntpd take 
it from there? Seems like your clock would become synced a lot faster if 
it started out "close". Sorry if I'm being naive, but this seemed like the 
obvious thing to do.

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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