I have ntpd running on a box. I want to see how the time on the box compares to the time retrieved from ntp.ubuntu.com. Is there an easy way to do this?
How to compare an ntp server’s time to the server’s time
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Best Answer
ntpq -p ntp.ubuntu.com
From
man ntpq
:Edit: The host is timing out right now.
ntpq -p pool.ntp.org
will return a valid result.