Re: Ntpdate and sntpclock differ by 20+ seconds
[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:45:50 -0500
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Ethan Erchinger <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having problems with sntpclock. It seems that it's showing drastically > different times than the ntp tool ntpdate. sntpclock assumes the local clock is TAI - that it counts all seconds, including leap seconds. ntpdate assumes the local clock is POSIX- that it count only non-leap seconds. ntpdate is telling you that if you intend your clock to be a POSIX clock, it's well-synchronized. sntpclock is telling you that if you intend your clock to be a TAI clock, it's 22 seconds behind. paul