[ntp:questions] Dispaying nanoseconds
mills at udel.edu
mills at udel.edu
Thu Feb 15 10:20:39 UTC 2007
Rune,
The vanilla ntptime shows precision, but it really should say
resolution. By definition, precision is the time taken to read the
system clock, ranging from 42 microseconds in a SPARC IPC to 500
nanoseconds in a Sun Blade 1500.
Dave
Rune Magnussen wrote:
> Den Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:06:38 -0800. skrev Eugen COCA:
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>>Are there any ways to display nanoseconds with ntpq or ntpdc programs ?
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> That depends on your OS. Unpatched Linux systems shows ms but FreeBSD
> shows ns when you use ntptime. Precission shows 0.001 us.
>
> /Rune
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