This has been submitted to the NTP community as bug 3721. https://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3721 --- ntpd/ntp_proto.c.orig +++ ntpd/ntp_proto.c @@ -2973,7 +2973,9 @@ * Clock exceeds panic threshold. Life as we know it ends. */ case -1: - msyslog(LOG_ERR, "Clock offset exceeds panic threshold."); + msyslog(LOG_ERR, + "Clock offset %d seconds exceeds panic threshold.", + (int) sys_offset); #ifdef HAVE_LIBSCF_H /* * For Solaris enter the maintenance mode.