[mythtv-users] NTP drift...

[John Brooks]

Thanks for the response! To be more specific about my problem, Mike, the
beginning of a show appears to be cut off, but it's entirely possible that I
just need to start the recording off early or finish late where appropriate.
My only concern is that that will cut into recording shows that either
precede or follow a show's time slot.

An additional piece of information: I have noticed that the hardware clock
has gone wacky a few times. Like reset the date to some time in the 80's
wacky. It seems to be all right now after doing a hwclock --systohc, but I
don't know if there are any more problems there, and if so what can be done
to correct them.

Below are the ntp drift file and output of ntpq -p:

mythtv at bombadil:~$ more /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
-500.000
mythtv at bombadil:~$ ntpq -p
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
jitter
==============================================================================
 stairway.tshis. 193.79.237.14    2 u  293 1024  377  2094.02  -2384.3
674.934
 time.sr.sonic.n 207.200.81.113   2 u  290 1024  377  1839.04  -2515.2
2056.10
*excalibur.exsv. 88.191.254.7     3 u  420 1024  367  773.307  -4519.3
364.953
 hoas-fe1add00-1 80.203.145.142   3 u  301 1024  377  671.352  -4908.9
2359.75
 LOCAL(0)        LOCAL(0)        13 l   43   64  377    0.000    0.000
0.004

I'm not certain what tickadj does (doing man tickadj just brings up ntp).
Will that help me? Thanks again for all your help!

Jack.
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