[mythtv-users] Two shows last week got recorded for a few minutes at ~ 4:00 AM instead of the real time.

[David George]

On 03/23/2009 04:20 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:25 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Thanks. I do have automatic time synchronization with ntp. Perhaps
>> something wacky happened with the time server for a brief moment. I
>> believe it happened on only march 12th.
>>     
>
> Time sync with ntp is not supposed to do big leaps. Even if the
> server's time got way out of sync, your client would only move slowly
> towards the server time.
>
>   

Depends on if the OP is using ntpd to keep in sync all the time or is 
using ntpdate periodically.  ntpd isn't supposed to make big leaps, but 
running ntpdate will.

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David George
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