Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 07:06:50AM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
>> I think that this should be a configuration item in the service, so that the
>> user can decide whether to have it or not.  I don't think we should force it
>> on the user.   Some applications break if the clock makes large jumps.
>
> I agree. This is really something that the system administrator should
> evaluate and fix on a case-by-case basis.

I agree too!  And I think it’s good idea to have defaults that match
upstream’s defaults.

>> The ntpd authors decided that the default behaviour is not to make large jumps
>> so I think we should respect that unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.
>> So I think this should be configurable in /etc/config.scm and the default should
>> be not to use -g
>
> For me, I have to do this so rarely (and never on the machines I
> currently use) that I am fine with having to run `ntpd -g ...` by hand.
>
> So, if we want to make this configurable in the OS configuration,
> volunteers are welcome to work on it :)

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