speed up ntpd on boot?

[gschoppe]

I have ntpd running as a service, to fix the system time. However, when I boot, it takes almost 5 minutes for the time to change from the Unix Epoch to current. how can I speed up the process? It's making my openvpn service time out.

[gschoppe]

So, it appears that ntpd, by design, is simply an extremely slow option, that is not suitable for applications where there is no hardware clock. I have switched back to openntpd, and all is well. However, openntpd is a deprecated package. Is anyone working on porting sntp?

[rty]

Try changing to other time server? Try using your local country pool http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
nano /etc/ntp.conf')

[gschoppe]

no dice... tried it, and syncing was still almost three minutes... the issue with NTPd is that it throws away over 90% of the traffic from the timeserver, due to minor latency issues, rather than using them as a rough correction and then improving from there. So, with an RTC, NTPd corrects to a very accurate time, given time to work. However, without an RTC, as with the pogoplug, NTPd simply isn't fast enough.

[pepedog]

Perhaps you could start a fakeclock first, it would set time from last entries in /var/log/everything.log to be near the mark
Not a package http://myplugbox.com/fakeclock.tar.xz