Anno domini 2020 Wed, 29 Jan 12:46:35 -0500
Steve Litt scripsit:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:58:57 +0000
> Rainer Weikusat via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > Dimitris via Dng <dng@???> writes:
> > > On 1/28/20 6:46 PM, Rainer Weikusat via Dng wrote:
> > >> run ntpdate from
> > >
> > > i've witnessed cases in the past where ntpd wasn't time-syncing
> > > correctly, and ntpdate saved the date/time.
> > > so, IMHO, there's nothing wrong with ntpdate.
> >
> > There's nothing wrong with ntpdate provided there's nothing wrong with
> > having the wallclock make arbitrary backwards or forward jumps in
> > unpredictable intervals, IOW, if the only user is a human who doesn't
> > really care, everything's fine.
>
> Don't all time clients have an option to choose between all at once
> catch-up and slightly redefining a second so the catchup is more slow?
> Maybe ntpdate and that systemd thing also have such an option?

"ntpdate -B" should do it that way.

>
> SteveT
>
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