On 12 Sep, 22:14, David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howard Barina wrote: > > > Does an NTP servers take into account it's estimated offset in serving time > > There seem to have been a lot of questions asked in the last month that > are based on the false assumption that "offset" measures the difference > between the local clock and true time. Has someone published a > misleading document, somewhere? I think I am one of the people who has made this mistake.
> "offset" is the difference between the clients best estimate of the true > time and a weighted average of the most recent "best" measurements from > its upstream servers. Those measurements have a significant measurement > error. So I can't plot the offsets in the loopstats file to show how accurate the time was on an NTP client over a period of time? How can I obtain a historic record of the difference between true time and local clock time on an NTP client? Thanks Mike _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
