27 Jan
2016
27 Jan
'16
8:53 a.m.
On 2016-01-27 09:36, John R Pierce wrote:
Hi!
ntpd won't make drastic changes in the time, if its too far off. its designed to stabilize the clock by making small changes in speeding it up or slowing it down, and not 'staircase' setting it absolutely.
http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo.htm#Q-ALGO-BASIC-STEP-SLEW
Apart from that, the ntp-implementation (or chrony nowadays) "wants" to have more than one time source.
http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo-real.htm#Q-NTP-ALGO
Cheers
Dirk