22 sec delta for clockspeed ntp

Alex Stevens <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:59:51 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.libtai
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm trying out libtai to see if it will do what I want.

I'm confused by the 22 sec delta between the servers synced with ntpd
and the machine running clockspeed. 

I compiled /usr/share/zoneinfo on the clockspeed box with 'right' zones,
so I would assume that the clockspeed machine would show the same time
as the machines using UTC/gps. But clockspeed is ~ 22 secs faster,
meaning that it isn't accounting for leapseconds (OK, to be perfectly
correct, leapseconds since 1972).

On the other hand, the delta slowly diminishes, though very slowly, so I
suppose clockspeed will eventually get it right. Of course, whenever the
clockspeed time is adjusted, the delta goes back to 22 secs. I'm still
not sure what I did wrong, since in searching the archives, the opinion
seems to be that if clockspeed is using right zones, the 22 second
discrepancy will be eliminated.

Not sure what I missed.

-Alex Stevens

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