I am trying to understand what all the different values mean in the following output. I understand the command below is comparing my local time ("current time is") with time.nist.gov
8:38:08 is my local workstation time.
What does the value in d:
mean?
What does the value in o:
mean?
C:\>w32tm /stripchart /computer:time.nist.gov
Tracking time.nist.gov [131.107.13.100:123].
The current time is 3/5/2015 8:38:08 AM.
08:38:08 d:+00.0311860s o:+00.2011040s [ |* ]
08:38:10 d:+00.0311843s o:+00.1896103s [ |* ]
08:38:12 d:+00.0311849s o:+00.1905021s [ |* ]
I think I understand o:
to mean that if I take my current time and add the o:
value, then my local time will be in sync with remote time. I tried by adjusting my time ahead a few seconds. Since the o:
value changed to -00.3849046s, I assume that means my local time is ahead and I need to slow it down to be in sync:
C:\>w32tm /stripchart /computer:time.nist.gov
Tracking time.nist.gov [24.56.178.140:123].
The current time is 3/5/2015 8:43:06 AM.
08:43:06 d:+00.0467946s o:-00.3849046s [ *| ]
08:43:08 d:+00.0311896s o:-00.3815899s [ *| ]
08:43:10 d:+00.0439942s o:-00.3595516s [ *| ]
This also leads me to believe the |
symbol is local time and the *
is the remote time. *
to the left means your time is ahead. *
to the right of it means your time is behind.
That still leaves d:
... is that ping latency? Do I need to add those seconds with o:
to get the final time of the remote time server?