pool.ntp.org experienced a minor incident on October 2, 2013, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- resolved Oct 03, 2013, 06:08 AM UTC
For a period of time until yesterday some DNS queries didn't get an appropriately geo targeted response. This could mean that your ntpd got NTP servers from far away in the world rather than nearby ones. Restarting ntpd will resolve it.