[ntp:questions] Extracting ntpq like information programmatically

John Hasler jhasler at newsguy.com
Fri Mar 29 20:20:03 UTC 2013


Claudio Carbone wrote:
> I mean that, when I have certain timings from different machines, if I
> correct them by their average offset from a common source, doesn't this
> augment the precision of the measure?

NTP has already used the offset to correct the system clock.  You don't
need or want to do anything.  When NTP says that the clocks are
synchronized they are as close as it is possible to get them over the
network.
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John Hasler 
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