->how long did you wait before coming to this conclusion ?  xntpd tries
->to be smart, and normally takes some time (couple of hours?) before it
->will update the time.  i used xntpd on netbsd 0.9a upto 1.0beta (i've

Because of this, one should use ntpdate before starting xntpd.

->since decided that rdate is good enough for me) without a problem.

I am using ntpdate only on -current, because I was not able to compile xntpd 
with a local refclock (dcf77) and kenel-pll.  So I just use ntpdate 4 times a 
day, which gives me a drift of ~0.2 seconds around the current time.  This 
would be much better with a kernel-pll tunable by xntpd[ate].

Gruesse
       Oskar

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