I know that a similar question has been asked at superuser.
But I tried to grep for "time reset" in my /var/log/system.log
and I can't find any instance of it. In fact, I even searched in the eight archived copies of system.log (system.log.0.bz2
through system.log.7.bz2
). All I found when grep'ing for the word "ntpd" are lines like these:
Feb 20 10:17:16 caspar ntpd[44498]: proto: precision = 1.000 usec
Feb 20 12:27:21 caspar ntpd[44625]: proto: precision = 1.000 usec
Feb 20 18:31:53 caspar ntpd[44625]: bind(28) AF_INET6 > <censored IPv6> flags 0x11 failed: Can't assign requested address
Feb 20 18:31:53 caspar ntpd[44625]: unable to create socket on en0 (7) for <censored IPv6>
Update #1
Following @Raolin's suggestion, I now see lines like this in /tmp/ntpd.log
:
21 Feb 19:30:52 ntpd[2328]: DNS time.asia.apple.com. ttl 1900
21 Feb 19:30:52 ntpd[2328]: DNS time.asia.apple.com. minpoll 9
21 Feb 19:30:52 ntpd[2328]: DNS time.asia.apple.com. maxpoll 12
21 Feb 19:30:52 ntpd[2328]: DNS time.asia.apple.com. +iburst
21 Feb 20:02:32 ntpd[2328]: DNS time.asia.apple.com. ttl 4013
21 Feb 21:09:24 ntpd[2328]: DNS time.asia.apple.com. ttl 3507
I'm not sure if the lines containing 'ttl' means it's trying to sync.