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Comment Re:Subjective summary is subjective (Score 1) 191

The advogato [post is outdated. Since them quite a few things changed. Look at the code and the manual page:
ntpd uses the adjtime(2) system call to correct the local system time without causing time jumps. Adjustments of 32ms and greater are logged using syslog(3). The threshold value is chosen to avoid having local clock drift thrash the log files. Should ntpd be started with the -d or -v option, all calls to adjtime(2) will be logged. After the local clock is synchronized, ntpd adjusts the clock frequency using the adjfreq(2) system call to compensate for systematic drift.
Again, for the majority of use cases, OpenNTPD does achieve an accuracy that's good enough and even better than that.

Comment Re:Subjective summary is subjective (Score 1) 191

Wrong again. It does do clock slowing or speeding up. Both to get the clock right and to compute a persistent clock frequency adjustment. It does NOT just set the clock. I don't know which version on what platform you were testing. Maybe your port was terribly done. But on OpenBSD it works like a charm for almost any purpose.

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