[arch-general] [Bulk] Re: Leap seconds ntp and chrony?

Kevin Chadwick ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jul 4 17:57:19 EDT 2012


> I lose about 14 PPM, which amounts to
> roughly seven minutes in a year.
> 

Try disabling ntp for a week. Set your clock to atomic manually. By
your reckoning you should be out by over eight seconds in a week. Let's
see?

> Having that kind of discrepancies on a network doing distributed
> development would wreck absolute havoc.

Why?

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