Ahhh okay. So maybe I'm expecting too much perfection of the monitoring
server and
it's plotting of offset data.

-Alby





On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Rob Janssen <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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