The computer is a HP (Compaq) DL360 G1 running 32bit Windows server 2003. Unfortunately windows update restarted the machine last night so I have to wait for things to stabilise again before posting stats :\
Mark -----Original Message----- From: Miroslav Lichvar [mailto:mlich...@redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2011 10:50 PM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] New ntp Server On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 07:53:15AM +0000, Mark C. Stephens wrote: > Hello Sir Unrah, > > > I just use ntpq -p. I am using Dave Harts rather excellent port to windows: > > C:\Program Files\NTP\bin>ntpq -p > remote refid st t when > poll reach delay offset jitter > ============================================================================== > *GPS_NMEA(1) .GPS. 0 l 1 16 > 377 0.000 -0.139 0.059 > oPPS(1) .PPS. 0 l - > 16 377 0.000 -0.007 0.002 > > I restarted ntpd a couple of hours ago so these number will improve. > > That is a good question, are we talking seconds for offset and jitter here? They are milliseconds. If ntpd on Windows can really keep the clock stable to to ~10 microseconds, the recent suggestion posted here to never use Windows for serious timekeeping might need to be revisited. -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
