System clock falls behind quickly on Mac mini G4

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 09:16:02PM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 02:53:12PM -0600, John Hein wrote:
> > Alexey Dokuchaev danfe-at-nsu.ru wrote at 21:47 +0700 on Apr 4, 2014:
> > > Running ntpd(8) unfortunately does not make things better (well maybe it
> > > helps a bit, but clock still drifts away pretty fast).  I guess my only
> > > option is to run ntpdate(8) periodically. :-(
> > 
> > You could try chronyd vs. ntpd - the former works with a larger
> > frequency error.  Untested by me.  I also don't think we have a port
> > yet.
> 
> Thanks for suggestion; I'll take a look into chronyd and report of the
> results.

I've discovered there was PR filed on it back in 2012 (ports/174263), but
apparently swills@ got sidetracked, so it was not committed until now.  I
have added it as of r350635.  Unfortunately, it does not work on PowerPC,
at least for me it dies with ``Could not open any NTP socket'' message on
startup. :-(

./danfe