[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. <snip> _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
