Time Variances

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On Thursday 09 March 2006 13:22, Slack Rat wrote:
> I'm having difficulty with getting my clock synchronized
>
> Initially I was doing nothing except running ntpdate from CLI after a
> reboot
[ ... ]
> Then reading more on ntpdate, I discovered that ntpdate is deprecated
> by Slackware in favour of NTP
[ ... ]
> So after a day or so I killed NTP which allowed the cronjob to fire
> successfully and everything looked rosy
>
> But now the variances are drifting up again[ ... ]

ntp is meant to run continuously.  Your samples show ntp polling other 
sources ever 64 seconds.  As ntp learns to compensate for the 
instability of your system it will poll less often.  
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