ntpdate installed but time differs from nrc official?

[Bob Nielsen]

On Jun 9, 2006, at 2:01 PM, David Armour wrote:

> hello,
>
> thanks for your message.
>>
>> for the most part, i've been v. happy with all things ubuntu. the  
>> time display's one of those things that can seem trivial, until  
>> you look a little
> <snipping my own stuff>
>>
>> I've found that chrony is much easier to get working correctly  
>> than ntpdate.  Since I have a 24/7 ADSL connection I removed the  
>> "offline" paramater in chrony.conf and restarted after installing  
>> it.  It took a few hours to make the initial corrections and after  
>> that it just worked.
> "just worked" is what i like to hear. i've not heard of chrony. is  
> it an off-shoot of cron? i'll have to have a look around.
>
> although i'm wary of others "few hours" time estimates. they  
> usually translate into much longer, in my world. :c)
>

No, it is not related to cron but works in a similar manner as ntp  
(as a daemon).  It is targeted at systems which are not on all the  
time, but works fine otherwise also.  All of my systems are within <  
1 sec. of my WWVB "atomic" clock.