[email protected] wrote:
> Hi, I need some help in interpreting the loopstats file, hope someone
> can help
> I have ntp configured so that it is generating the loopstats file, the
> file format is the following
> 
> 54854 852.338 0.000779917 -85.871689 0.001363577 15.650605 10
> 54854 2390.510 -0.000000876 -85.871689 0.000993395 13.553822 10
> 
> checking the link http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-trouble.htm
> the entries represent
> 
> day, second, offset, drift compensation, estimated error, stability,
> polling interval
> 
> I understand that it should create a new loops.YYMMDD every day,
> however, I noticed that the new file was created at around 7:00 pm
> EST. For example, today is 01/22/09, it was writing to loops.20090122
> this morning, but at around 7:00 pm, it started to write to the file
> loops.20090123, is it because it is based on UTC? is there any way to
> have the file created based on EST?
> 
No!
> the day and second are based on Julian Day and UTC, are there any
> simple way to convert them to calendar day besides using a script? I
> may be able to convert Julian Day to calendar day, but how can we
> convert UTC to the EST time?

Add five hours!  When we go to daylight saving time that changes to four 
hours.

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