Re: [Help-bash] set time

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 01:02:16PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> i thought ntpd would automatically adjust the time even if the server is 2 
> hours out of sync

It will try, but NTP's approach is to be subtle about it.  It normally
calls adjtime() or adjtimex() to cause a gradual adjustment of the clock
over time.  If the system clock is so far out of tune that the kernel's
adjtimex() routine can't keep up, then you'll fall farther and farther out
of sync, even with NTP running.  (At that point, you buy a new motherboard
or something.  Been there, done that.)