Hushpuppy wrote: > Hi, > I have a machine that is syncing to a Stratum-2 server which is > syncing to a Stratum-1 server, which has a GPS Stratum-0 device > attached to it. At my work (financial services) the market rules > mandate synchronizing our clocks to within a maximum 3 second > difference of the NIST atomic clock. We also need to log/document > that we are within 3 seconds. > > So I have been perusing the output of ntpq but I don't fully > understand it after some time of study. I assume I could use the pe > command to figure out what my current offset is, and then as to > determine my assID, and finally rv <assID> to look at my peers. Then > I could perhaps add the current offset of my current peer, to one of > the numbers from the rv command (rootdispersion?), to arrive at a
I believe that the "root dispersion" is your actual error; e.g. the difference between your clock and the correct time. I believe that "offset" is the difference between your clock and the server. The distinction is subtle but important. <snip> _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
