ntpdate and ntpd not setting time when rebooting from BootCamp/Windows

I've got a farily consistent repro here, where my kids will reboot using BootCamp to play a game in Vista, and when they reboot back to Mac OS X, the time is set to UTC instead of adjusted for PDT.

I noticed in the system.log:

Oct 17 15:37:46 iMac ntpdate[114]: can't find host time.apple.com\n
Oct 17 15:37:46 iMac ntpdate[114]: no servers can be used, exiting
Oct 17 15:37:46 iMac ntpd[140]: bind() fd 10, family 30, port 123, addr fe80:4::21b:63ff:fe97:514e, in6 is_addrmulticast=0 flags=0 fails: Can't assign requested address

I've already tried the fix at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303731 but it didn't seem to help;

I'm wondering if the network isn't fully operational yet (I'm connected 100BaseT to an always on cable modem, but hey, even that can take a couple of seconds) and that may be causing the issue...

Help is appreciated. Of course, I'm planning on switching to Leopard when I can, but for now this is just plain annoying.

iMAC, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Oct 17, 2007 10:57 PM

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Oct 18, 2007 8:37 PM in response to Snapdog

That sort of showed me that the problem is that ntpd is running but it isn't connecting:

xxx $ /usr/bin/ntpq -c peers
No association ID's returned
xxx $

If I kill the ntpd's that are running and start them manually, I get:

ntpq> peers
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
time0.apple.com 17.72.133.55 2 u 10 68m 1 32.977 3.652 0.001
ntpq> q

Clearly I'm successful in connecting at least once, so how is this not working right after a boot when I've used BootCamp? If I just reboot the mac without having switched to BootCamp, I don't recall seeing this issue...

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