Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift

Le 10-05-2025, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :

On 09 May 2025 21:19:57 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
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For my system: it doesn't drift.

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Yes it does.  All PCs will drift.

Nonononono. You precisely said you were speaking about systems and not
about hardware. All hardware drift, yes. But that wasn't your question:
you were precise about that. So, if you don't know the difference
between your system and your hardware, don't be precise.

The ntp is there to prevent it. And it works fine out of the box.

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That's the lackey answer.

No, that's the technical correct answer. I already explained it to you
a long time ago but you are unable to learn anything.

The lackey doesn't know, doesn't care, and allows the distro
to do it all for him.

For a fact, you are the one who don't care. You wrote it. I care about
my system drift and I let it handle correctly my hardware drift. Can you
spot the difference?

Because of the large numbers of lackeys that use GNU/Linux
many fine programs such as openrdate are going unmaintained:
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https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/openrdate

It's unmaintained because it's useless: ntp does a fine job by default.
No need for a tool which let the system drift and correct it from time
to time (maybe it does better than that: I don't have time to check all
of your obsolete tools).

How much does your system clock drift?

 
I told you: it doesn't.

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And I told you that it does.

Because you don't understand how ntp works. But it doesn't prove you are
right: it proves you are clueless about how modern computers work.

How much does your system clock drift?

 
For the third time, my system doesn't drift.

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For the third time, yes it does.

For the third time, you are wrong. My hardware drift, yes, but you
precisely said it wasn't about it. It's about my system, which doesn't
drift because ntp cares about my hardware drift. I know it's a little
bit difficult for you to understand. Read it again and again, it should
become clear sometime. You could also check about ntp, but I guess it's
too difficult for you.

Can the distro lackeys even know?

 
Of course I know. And a default ntp configuration of any distro lackey
works

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Then you admit that you are a lackey.

I admit nothing. You consider anyone except you to be a lackey, so there
is no point arguing about that. I manage my computer, but a lot of
people don't care about how their system work: they just need to surf on
Internet, read their emails and see their grandchild from time to time.
There is nothing wrong about that except in your vision of the world.
But your vision is shit, so there is nothing to argue about it. I'm only
using simple words you are able to understand. And in these simple
words, their default system work better than your clumsy joke of a
computer.

Now listen.  This group is intended for GNU/Linux _advocates_ and an
advocate is someone who knows and cares.

I know and care. But I'm telling you: a lot of people outside of this
group don't care and their computers are better managed than yours.

A lackey cannot be an advocate,

For a fact, I met a lot of people switching from Windows to Linux being
better advocates of Linux than you (which is not very difficult, I can
concede). So, no, a lackey can be a very good advocate.

so get out of here and don't come back.

You already said that, I'll answer the same: I do what I want and you
are powerless about it: your imaginary killer friends can't stop me,
your lack of brain can't stop me. You can repeat yourself as much as you
want: I'll stop coming here when I decide, not when you tell me to.

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