Adapted from the equivalent text in the OpenBSD man page which has been
removed from the portable version.
Requested by: Don Sullivan <sullivan@gaia.arc.nasa.gov>
* -s option to set the time immediately at startup if the local
clock is off by more than 180 seconds.
* Adjustments smaller than 128ms are no longer logged.
Update to 20040718p. Changes in this release:
- Ignore obviously malformed queries.
- Respond to client queries with better server statistics.
(2)
Fix configuration file location in man pages.
PR: 69233
Submitted by: edwin (2)
The ntpd daemon implements the Simple Network Time Protocol version 4 as
described in RFC 2030 and the Network Time Protocol version 3 as de-
scribed in RFC 1305. It can synchronize the local clock to one or more
remote NTP servers and act as NTP server itself, redistributing the local
time.