You will definitely want to use the initstepslew option in your chrony
configuration.

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 12:00 -0700, Enea Scioni wrote:
> Yes, infact embedded board doesn't have a button battery, so every reboot
> means that the date will reset on 1 Jan 1970: for that reason the offset is
> very high. I'll try chrony to fix this, and I let's you know the result.
> 
> The output it's the same, both IP and Hostname:
> 5 May 20:55:46 ntpdate[1558]: no server suitable for synchronization found
> 
> The problem is not the Hostname; before I posted the command using the IP,
> but the behaviour it's always the same.
> (I checked also /etc/hosts )
> 
> Enea Scioni