[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#542602: Bug#542602: moreinfo+retitle

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 12:19:13AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> Most services want the time to be more or less correct, for most
> an offset of a few seconds will probably not even be a problem.
> Maybe it would be useful to also have an "event" for that.  This
> is something ntpdate can do now, maybe it would be useful that
> ntpd also has such an option?  (Ntpdate will be removed at some
> point.)  Maybe $time should be that event.

ntpd can also emulate ntpdate's behaviour with the -q option,
and that doesn't take that long.


Kurt