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@ -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
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Authors
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Richard P. Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Maintainers
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Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Acknowledgements
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@ -198,18 +191,6 @@ Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com>
Antti Jrvinen <costello@iki.fi>
Advice on configuring for BSD/386
Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
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 <vim@prv.adlum.ru>
Patch to support Linux with HZ!=100
@ -228,6 +209,9 @@ Andreas Piesk <apiesk@virbus.de>
Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Patch to reply correctly on multihomed hosts
Bill Unruh <unruh@physics.ubc.ca>
Advice on statistics
Stephen Wadeley <swadeley@redhat.com>
Improvements to man pages
@ -244,5 +228,5 @@ Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> for the
Doug Woodward <dougw@whistler.com>
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.