On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:29:40 +0100 Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote: > Is that worse than letting a kernel do that? "Once the kernel PPS is lit, it will stay lit even if the daemon loses the prefered soure or even dies" So as long you'll have a connected PPS signal, the time will tick in the right speed according to the PPS.