You can use [code] tags to make your output formatted like the terminal output. The NTP daemon is usually packaged with several README files in HTML format. If not, Google turned up the top link: http://www.ntp.org/documentation.html
"st" is "stratum" -- the lower, the more authoritative. "remote" is obviously the name of the NTP server the rest of the line refers to. "refid" is complicated to explain. "poll" is how often the NTP sever in question is asked about the time. "when" means how many more seconds until the poll time is reached (or how many seconds ago it was last reached). "reach" means whether the site in question is reachable -- zero means it isn't; the others are various metrics used by NTP to calculate the actual time. The "offset" means how much the remote server's clock differs from the local clock. The "delay" means how many tics it takes for a packet from "there" to reach "here", which is important in determining how to interpret offset. Not sure what "disp" is, but often you see "jitter" which means how consistent the delay values is. So the real time is something like:
but I doubt it's that simple.
Last edited by otheus; 04-15-2009 at 08:41 AM..
Reason: corrected according to pludi
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ntptrace
ntptrace(8) System Manager's Manual ntptrace(8)NAME
ntptrace - Traces a chain of NTP hosts back to their master time source
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/ntptrace [-dnv] [-r retries] [-t timeout] [server]
OPTIONS
Turns on some debugging output. Turns off the printing of host names; instead, host IP addresses are given. This may be necessary if a
nameserver is down. Sets the number of retransmission attempts for each host; default = 5. Sets the retransmission timeout (in seconds);
default = 2. Prints verbose information about the NTP servers.
DESCRIPTION
The ntptrace command determines where a given Network Time Protocol (NTP) server gets its time from, and follows the chain of NTP servers
back to their master time source. If given no arguments, it starts with localhost.
The following is an example of the output from ntptrace: % ntptrace localhost: stratum 4, offset 0.0019529, synch distance 0.144135
server2.bozo.com: stratum 2, offset 0.0124263, synch distance 0.115784 usndh.edu: stratum 1, offset 0.0019298, synch distance 0.011993,
refid 'WWVB'
On each line, the fields are (left to right): the host name, the host's stratum, the time offset between that host and the local host (as
measured by ntptrace; this is why it is not always zero for localhost), the host's synchronization distance, and (only for stratum-1
servers) the reference clock ID. All times are given in seconds. (Synchronization distance is a measure of the goodness of the clock's
time.)
SEE ALSO
Commands: xntpd(8), xntpdc(8)ntptrace(8)