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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2013-10-26 08:43:39 -0400
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2013-10-26 08:43:39 -0400
commit67f8d5290812d80cc258ac99aed5339b1018359d (patch)
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Remove ntpd-specific language from a section that applies also to chrony.
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@@ -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 &plusmn;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 &plusmn;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