Bug 93193 – hpc-howto.xml sentence which doesn't make any sense

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• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Mateusz Kotyrba 2005-05-19 05:08:27 UTC]

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
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[Comment 1 Alin Dobre (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 05:19:02 UTC]

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).

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 05:25:45 UTC]

Sure, ntpd won

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 05:25:45 UTC]

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. 

[Comment 4 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 07:25:53 UTC]

NTP will not update the local clock if the time gap is too wide.