From 633a007b7bf4790e8cba85826a028a85802cbceb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miroslav Lichvar Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 11:42:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: update README --- README | 38 +++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 005cba1..50a1c4d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ intermittent network connections, heavily congested networks, changing temperatures (ordinary computer clocks are sensitive to temperature), and systems that do not run continuosly, or run on a virtual machine. -Typical accuracy between two machines on a LAN is in tens, or a few -hundreds, of microseconds; over the Internet, accuracy is typically -within a few milliseconds. With a good hardware reference clock -sub-microsecond accuracy is possible. +Typical accuracy between two machines synchronised over the Internet is +within a few milliseconds; on a LAN, accuracy is typically in tens of +microseconds. With hardware timestamping or a hardware reference clock +sub-microsecond accuracy may be possible. Two programs are included in chrony, chronyd is a daemon that can be started at boot time and chronyc is a command-line interface program @@ -95,19 +95,12 @@ License chrony is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2. - -Author -====== +Authors +======= Richard P. Curnow - - -Maintainers -=========== - Miroslav Lichvar - Acknowledgements ================ @@ -198,18 +191,6 @@ Jim Knoble Antti Jrvinen Advice on configuring for BSD/386 -Miroslav Lichvar - Reference clock support - IPv6 support - Linux capabilities support - Leap second support - Improved source selection - Improved sample history trimming - Improved polling interval adjustment - Improved stability with temporary asymmetric delays - Temperature compensation - Many other bug fixes and improvements - Victor Moroz Patch to support Linux with HZ!=100 @@ -228,6 +209,9 @@ Andreas Piesk Timo Teras Patch to reply correctly on multihomed hosts +Bill Unruh + Advice on statistics + Stephen Wadeley Improvements to man pages @@ -244,5 +228,5 @@ Ulrich Windl for the Doug Woodward Advice on configuring for Solaris 2.8 on x86 -Many other people have contributed bug reports and suggestions. I'm -sorry I can't identify all of you individually. +Many other people have contributed bug reports and suggestions. We are sorry +we cannot identify all of you individually.