Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Hasler Newsgroups: alt.os.linux Subject: Re: You have entered...The Time Zone Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:23:50 -0600 Organization: Dancing Horse Hill Lines: 15 Message-ID: <878qg4dc7t.fsf@sugarbit.com> References: <10fa3bb$3i62r$1@dont-email.me> <10falr4$3ncm9$1@dont-email.me> <10fan1d$3nqgm$1@dont-email.me> <10fd03c$9aml$1@dont-email.me> <10fd30h$aj0i$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:08:05 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f447f6b30c264dc289fd58a609cf3073"; logging-data="949737"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18t38ySWEDJe3djnyGW2xLJhJtCHQOy3/E=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:k/60IjXjHpHiIH3LwIjpZfXWZ8w= sha1:HOat/gxBiJfMDSRtGSJRZIPaCrs= Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux:82044 Paul wrote: > One thing I noticed, is one NTP server "seemed to go offline", > I was forced to select the backup, and I moved on with my day. > Maybe it was around this event, that the error occurred. > There have been NTP servers, that were off by twenty minutes. > They're fallible, so you shouldn't be lulled into a false > sense of security. You should always have three servers selected. NTP will check them against each other. Chrony does the same. -- John Hasler john@sugarbit.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA