Dag Wieers wrote: > I fail to see how that is relevant, since the local clock is wrong after a > reboot without network (so I rather not want to use it as a source :)) and > ntpd is not even started because ntpdate fails. > > But yes, I do have something like that (stratum 13 though). I somehow thought that ntpdate might be trying to access an unavailable time source. With these lines, you always have a time source available, even if it is inaccurate. Kirk Bocek