[time-nuts] Algorithm in use by chrony and OpenNTPD

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.se
Thu Jan 30 09:41:58 UTC 2020


Hi Watson,

On 2020-01-30 07:30, Watson Ladd wrote:
> Dear fellow nuts,
>
> I'm trying to find any sources on the clock discipline and source filtering
> algorithm that chrony and OpenNTPD use. It's different from the one ntpd
> uses that Mills described, which is much more like a PLL one might build.

You should start off by reading the many small articles that
Poul-Henning has written, they are here:

http://phk.freebsd.dk/time/

What he does is in his own words, non-magical, and I agree.

Cheers,
Magnus





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