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...n 2016-01-27 09:36, John R Pierce wrote: Hi! > ntpd won't make drastic changes in the time, if its too far off. its > designed to stabilize the clock by making small changes in speeding it > up or slowing it down, and not 'staircase' setting it absolutely. http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo.htm#Q-ALGO-BASIC-STEP-SLEW Apart from that, the ntp-implementation (or chrony nowadays) "wants" to have more than one time source. http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo-real.htm#Q-NTP-ALGO Cheers Dirk -- https://d5e.org/

Hi List I have ntp running as a service on a PC, with the expectation that it would keep time in synch to my ntp server. However, while I can manually update the time using "ntpdate -u ...", I find that if I manually force the wrong time, the ntpd service does not automatically re-synch the system time with the ntp server: - Current time: [admin at lol ~]# date Wed Jan 27 10:54:21

On Wed, January 2, 2013 03:53, Robert Dinse wrote: > > Friday, I moved our servers to a new co-lo facility and ran into > an interesting problem with virtual machines. > > I did an orderly shutdown of the CentOS 6.3 host, and it in > turn suspends all the guests. It took about an hour and a half > to move and fire up the host. > > The guests, being