[Bug 781088] Re: Time is not syncronized with NTP-server

[C de-Avillez]

@brawehear: no, it should not. The ntp.drift is a (continuously updated)
measure of how much your system's hardware clock deviates from time
sources (the NTP servers, or a real precise clock attached to the
machine) -- in other words, how much your hardware clock _drifts_ from
reliable clock sources. The calculated value is used to adjust the clock
when no time servers can be contacted.

NTP server addresses are stored in /etc/ntp.conf.

@gerti:

1. "I shouldn't need the NTP-daemon, as I don't want to run a NTP-
service for other machines om my network." Well, this is just *one*
reason to run NTP (as opposed to ntpdate only). The other -- and, in my
view, much more important -- reason is to keep your machine as much as
possible time-synchronised.

If you just use ntpdate your clock will (slowly, but surely) drift from
the correct time. How much and how fast depends on a lot of factors,
including how long since last sync, thermal variances on the computer,
quality of the computer hardware clock source, etc. Additionally, every
time you manually (or via cron) run ntpdate to adjust your time you will
get  a sudden jump in clock time -- which may cause problems to other
programmes.

2. "I reported, that my completely raw (i.e. non-update) 11.4 Ubuntu did
not adjust the clock correctly." We have released updates to NTP on
11.04. You *need* to apply them for us to be able to verify your issue.
Neither Clint, nor I, can reproduce it on up-to-date 11.04.

Unless you tell us more details (including what "did not work", with
output of commands, there is not much we can do.

Dropping the NTP task back to incomplete -- not enough data to confirm.

** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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  Time is not syncronized with NTP-server

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