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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2013-10-26 08:43:39 -0400 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2013-10-26 08:43:39 -0400 |
commit | 67f8d5290812d80cc258ac99aed5339b1018359d (patch) | |
tree | 3f7497cc4de55f4daca89f59923c7a8810cbdb49 /www | |
parent | 8a0b8107ade40c9fbf9422a8d2ded685802c81e0 (diff) | |
download | gpsd-67f8d5290812d80cc258ac99aed5339b1018359d.tar.gz |
Remove ntpd-specific language from a section that applies also to chrony.
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-rw-r--r-- | www/gpsd-time-service-howto.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/www/gpsd-time-service-howto.txt b/www/gpsd-time-service-howto.txt index 9a22d7ea..7f173c81 100644 --- a/www/gpsd-time-service-howto.txt +++ b/www/gpsd-time-service-howto.txt @@ -62,13 +62,11 @@ clock's tick rate until it is synchronized. These tick-rate changes are usually extremely small, much too small for a human or even most software timing loops to ever notice. But large changes are possible. -Most computers are just NTP clients. They send NTP requests to -a set of servers (which on a Unix system is described by a list in -/etc/ntp.conf or possibly /etc/default/ntpdate) and use it to adjust -the local clock. It is generally expected that NTP clients will have -an accuracy (that is, maximum divergence from the master atomic clock) -of at most ±100 mSec, possibly less depending upon the quality -of your network connection. +Most computers are just NTP clients. They send NTP requests to a set +of servers and use it to adjust the local clock. It is generally +expected that NTP clients will have an accuracy (that is, maximum +divergence from the master atomic clock) of at most ±100 mSec, +possibly less depending upon the quality of your network connection. Some NTP hosts are time *servers*. These are known as "chimers". They respond to NTP clients with time read from high-precision |