>>>>> telsar <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>> On 8/24/2012 7:52 AM, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
[Cross-posting to news:comp.protocols.time.ntp, for obvious
reasons.]
>> Out of nothing more that idle curiosity, I am looking a utility
>> which can display the time from several internet time servers at
>> once. I also need to be able to set which time servers it
>> interrogates.
>> Anyone come across such a utility please?
> ntpdate comes to mind, but it could just be a Unix phenomena. If you
> search on Network Time Protocol (NTP) you will see much. ntpdate is
> a suite of client/server programs to do all this stuff.
[...]
The ntpdate [1] version I use seems to come from the ntp.org
package [2], apparently developed by the developers of the NTP
protocol itself.
Ordinarily, ntpdate(8) is used to set the system's clock to the
time obtained by (AIUI) averaging (with weights) the times
reported by the servers specified. However, when started as
follows, it can show the difference without setting time:
$ /usr/sbin/ntpdate -uvq 0.debian.pool.ntp.org 1.debian.pool.ntp.org ...
And if the debugging mode is also set (with -d), it shows the
individual times reported, too.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntpdate
[2] http://ntp.org/downloads.html
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