What are the upstream configured servers for ntpd? Have you considered using chrony instead? It's supposed to better when dealing with intermittent access to time sources (which definitely applies...
What are the upstream configured servers for ntpd? Have you considered using chrony instead? It's supposed to better when dealing with intermittent access to time sources (which definitely applies to laptops).
I would second using chrony. If nothing else you will get nice stats, so you dont have to try and compare to a website: Ref time (UTC) : Sat Jun 16 16:21:12 2018 System time : 0.000049878 seconds...
I would second using chrony. If nothing else you will get nice stats, so you dont have to try and compare to a website:
Ref time (UTC) : Sat Jun 16 16:21:12 2018
System time : 0.000049878 seconds fast of NTP time
Last offset : +0.000148207 seconds
RMS offset : 0.024241729 seconds
Frequency : 2.966 ppm slow
Residual freq : +0.015 ppm
Skew : 0.530 ppm
What are the upstream configured servers for ntpd? Have you considered using chrony instead? It's supposed to better when dealing with intermittent access to time sources (which definitely applies to laptops).
I would second using chrony. If nothing else you will get nice stats, so you dont have to try and compare to a website: