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I want to monitor the time drift on my workstation. How can I compare my local time to a timeserver like pool.ntp.org and show the difference?

Peter Hoffmann
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Old, Outdated Answer

If you run ntpdate -q pool.ntp.org, it will show you the difference between your time and the time server.

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ntpdate has been deprecated for quite some time, and as of this edit (2017) it may no longer be available on new distributions.

clockdiff _server_ will show the clock difference and has been available since 12.04 LTS. See the man page for clockdiff.

jwernerny
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