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Re: ntp and multiple OSes



On Jun 13, 2014, at 12:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:

> 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.
>> 
> 
> 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

You're right!  I guess I was confused.  Sorry for spreading an error!

Rick

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