Re: ntpdig slew accuracy

2019-04-11 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Richard Laager via devel : > The Debian man page for ntpdate has this BUGS section: > The slew adjustment is actually 50% larger than the measured offset, > since this (it is argued) will tend to keep a badly drifting clock more > accurate. This is probably not a good idea and may cause a

ntpdig slew accuracy

2019-04-11 Thread Richard Laager via devel
The Debian man page for ntpdate has this BUGS section: The slew adjustment is actually 50% larger than the measured offset, since this (it is argued) will tend to keep a badly drifting clock more accurate. This is probably not a good idea and may cause a troubling hunt for some values of