The new ntpdate will no longer make the brutal abrupt time adjustment that some of us got to know and 'love'. I am not sure which behavior is in the FC1/2 ntp package at this time but the "time"s they be a changing on this point.
Read all about it on the ntp home pages and in the Fedora archives.
Most interesting. The last thing I read on the subject was a huge diatribe on the evils of ntpdate. Didn't pay that much attention to it, since it was written by someone with a genuine interest in microsecond-level precision whereas 10 or 15 seconds (10,000,000 greater variation) is just fine by me. <grin> However, I did retain the understanding that ntpdate was going to be eliminated at some point, not rewritten.
Haven't had much time to STFW here, but can you point me to a URL or two?
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