NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

[krad]

2009/10/15 Chris Hill <chris at monochrome.org>

> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Jacques Henry wrote:
>
>  The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is
>>>> hardly enough time to see if ntpd was slewing the time.  Slewing 587
>>>> seconds takes days.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> The thing is that ntpd is not slewing the time at all, even after several
>> hours!!
>>
>
> If I may pipe up... Can you not set the clock manually, then let ntpd take
> it from there? Seems like your clock would become synced a lot faster if it
> started out "close". Sorry if I'm being naive, but this seemed like the
> obvious thing to do.
>
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sometimes the crude and simple methods are the best 8)