AlbyVA wrote:
"...A couple of times an hour the pool system checks the time from your server and compares it to the local time..." I was wondering, where is "local time" being obtained? Is it an average of all the other servers in a Country? All I see is a monitoring station being in Los Angeles. Thanks, -Alby
It probably is the local time on the monitoring server. Not "local time" in the sense of the local wall clock time, but UTC time locally on the server. All of the ntp server works in UTC time, local time is not a concept known to ntp. Conversion of UTC to local time is done by the operating sytem and/or library routines. Anyway, there is an error in this monitoring. The monitored time always has a negative offset. I have never seen anything different, no matter how correctly tuned my time server. (it should now be within .1 ms most of the time, but the monitoring plot cloud is always between -10 and -3 ms) I would say there is a systematic error of about 4 or 5 ms. Rob _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
