On 6/19/05, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Marc Haber: > > > On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 08:20:49 -0500, Adam Majer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>That could "save" a grand total of about a second. > > > > It will save time in case of error when the bootup process stalls for > > timeouts like DNS and NTP. > > You should set the clock using NTP *before* starting any daemons. > Most daemons don't use monotonic clocks (I'm not even sure if Linux > supports them at the required level), and some of them fail in strange > ways if the system clock warps.
Doesn't Linux or NTP support gradually changing the clock exactly to avoid such warps?
