ntpd not setting the clock

[Carnildo]

I've got ntpd set up on my computer to keep the clock in sync. When I'm running Win98, the clock will drift over time (known bug in Windows), and I depend on ntpd to correct it when I'm back in Linux. Recently, however, it's not setting the clock. I get lines in /var/log/messages such as:

Mar 29 20:40:53 TheBear ntpd[7813]: adjusting local clock by -13.434551s

but no actual adjustment takes place. ntpd is adjusting the clock skew setting so that things will eventually come back in sync, but it's slow: ten hours to correct a one-minute error. Any idea what's going wrong?

[oxffffff]

ntpd is intended to adjust time slowly. If you want it to be set once (at startup), use ntpdate instead.

See http://gentoo-wiki.com/NTP, especially sections 4 and 5, for more details.