On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 07:19:46AM -0700, Fred wrote:
Someone complained off list about the timestamp in my emails being
off. Being a hardware person I think hardware should work properly
and clocks should keep accurate time. So I installed ntpdate as
suggested but it is not active yet.
If I ask google what time it is in Mesa AZ. the response agrees
closely with an "atomic" clock I have. The computer clock is about 10
min. fast.
fred@ragnok:~$ /usr/sbin/ntpdate -q time.nist.gov
server 2610:20:6f96:96::4, stratum 1, offset -610.512368, delay 0.09421
server 132.163.96.4, stratum 1, offset -610.509394, delay 0.08899
9 Aug 06:51:15 ntpdate[13672]: step time server 132.163.96.4
offset -610.509394 sec
fred@ragnok:~$ date
Thu Aug 9 06:51:18 MST 2018
The time server is quite close to the computer clock. What causes the
discrepancy? The offset in the time server response is about 10 min.
The offset is measured from what to what and how is it measured?
I'm having trouble understanding what you wrote here. What time do you
think it should be when you ran the commands above?
Mike Stone
