i386/123462: clock is to fast

[Rene Maroufi]

The following reply was made to PR i386/123462; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rene Maroufi <info at maroufi.net>
To: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/123462: clock is to fast
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 23:56:54 +0200

 On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:26:46PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
 > ntp is designed to compensate for that sort of drift, but it should be 
 > run continuously: the best setup is to run ntpdate once on boot to make 
 > any large adjustments but also to run ntpd so it can track and correct 
 > any drift.
 
 No, I tested this with ntpd too, but ntpd can't correct the time. The
 time difference between the real time and the PC clock grows with ntpd
 too.
 
 Greetings
 Rene
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