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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 21:23:09 -0500
From: Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@cogeco.ca>
To: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>
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Subject: Re: time servers nearish Vancouver
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On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:25:01 -0600
Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> wrote:

> At 10:17 PM 3/22/2002, Dan Langille wrote:
> >I'm using:
> >
> >$ more /etc/ntp.conf
> >server  ntp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca
> >server  time.chu.nrc.ca
> >server  time.nrc.ca
> >server  timelord.uregina.ca
> 
> Why does this stuff not work for me?  I tried running ntpd on a system I 
> have with a terrible clock, and I still found that the time was off by up 
> to six minutes in some instances.  I was thinking I'd get better results by 
> running ntpdate as a cron job.
> 
> What's the secret?  I've been scouring man pages and docs for days now to 
> no avail.  And how often does this ntp.conf actually update the time?
> 
> << Chip Morton >>
> 
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 If time is out of sync by more than a certain amount (1000s) ntpd refuses to sync. Perhaps this was your problem.

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