On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 15:25, Cameron Simpson wrote:
This doesn't explain why you lost this time, but if you lost contact
with your time servers and had sufficient drift in your hardware clock
(all clocks have some drift), this can certainly happen.
Running a huge CPU hog usually triggers "sync lost" messages in syslog.
Verified -
I see these types of ntpd messages in syslog for example after playing quake 3 or wolfenstein -
But time is still correct and all is actually well.
Joe