Re: ntp and multiple OSes
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
> If you want to compare the local clock with a remote system's clock (often called "skew"), the best way I know is with "ntpdate -qu". The "offset" it mentions is the difference between your clock and the remote clock. Sadly, "rdate -npv" doesn't give that information.
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Are you sure it doesn't? I'm seeing a very similar-looking number here:
rosuav@sikorsky:~$ rdate -npv gideon
Fri Jun 13 17:12:35 EST 2014
rdate: adjust local clock by 0.002302 seconds
rosuav@sikorsky:~$ ntpdate -qu gideon
server 192.168.0.13, stratum 3, offset 0.002310, delay 0.02589
13 Jun 17:12:42 ntpdate[32551]: adjust time server 192.168.0.13 offset
0.002310 sec
The "adjust local clock by" line is provided by -v, although it
doesn't show the delay (which, btw, seems rather high; gideon and
sikorsky share a LAN, so I would expect a lot less than 25ms to get a
response).
ChrisA
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