I'm translating hpc-howto.xml to Polish. But in the file there is a sentence: NTP will not update the local clock if the time difference between your synchronization source and the local clock is too great. I think that it shuold be: NTP will update the local clock if the time difference between your synchronization source and the local clock is too great. Am I right? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
afaik, the sentence is correct. indeed, if the time offset is too great, the clock will not be syncronized (or will be syncronized in several sequences). but, i think that there should be a second opinion here (if possible, from who's in charge of the ntp package).
Sure, ntpd won
Sure, ntpd won´t adjust local clock if the local time is way too wrong. IIRC the maximum is something like 900s but I don´t want to search the docs for this. Anyway, you can try it yourself and will see that the sentence is correct.
NTP will not update the local clock if the time gap is too wide.
