I made the changes you suggested and when I do an ntpq -p I get the following:
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== time.nist.gov .ACTS. 1 u 43 64 1 43.295 4812.14 0.002 ns.arc.nasa.gov 198.123.30.132 2 u 47 64 1 22.387 4812.17 0.002 tick.usno.navy. .USNO. 1 u 46 64 1 272.895 4894.98 0.002 LOCAL(0) LOCAL(0) 10 l 45 64 1 0.000 0.000 0.002
This is more than I got before. The time now seems to be within 3-4 seconds of my other servers.
When I do ntpstat though I get the following:
unsynchronised time server re-starting polling server every 16 s
So I seem to be very close.
It takes a while to synchronise properly. Give it time.
Your time would be closer to real time if you ran ntpdate before starting up ntpd though. If you create/edit the file /etc/ntp/step-tickers and have it contain the following lines:
time.nist.gov ns.arc.nasa.gov tick.usno.navy.mil
then the Fedora NTP initscript will try to synchronise time with one of those servers before starting ntpd, and your time will be better synchronised, more quickly.
Cheers, Paul.
