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Report generated: Tue Jul 1 19:15:03 2025 UTC
Start Time: Mon Jun 30 19:15:03 2025 UTC
End Time: Tue Jul 1 19:15:03 2025 UTC
Report Period: 1.0 days

Local Clock Time/Frequency Offsets

local offset plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Local Clock Time Offset -2.683 -2.683 -1.245 -0.023 1.465 1.655 1.655 2.710 4.338 0.817 -0.014 ms -4.68 14.2
Local Clock Frequency Offset 18.894 18.894 18.911 19.154 19.828 19.949 19.949 0.916 1.055 0.285 19.218 ppm 2.928e+05 1.945e+07

The time and frequency offsets between the ntpd calculated time and the local system clock. Showing frequency offset (red, in parts per million, scale on right) and the time offset (blue, in μs, scale on left). Quick changes in time offset will lead to larger frequency offsets.

These are fields 3 (time) and 4 (frequency) from the loopstats log file.



Local RMS Time Jitter

local jitter plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Local RMS Time Jitter 154.187 154.187 163.466 285.570 657.029 688.432 688.432 493.563 534.245 145.147 323.996 µs 6.792 20.93

The RMS Jitter of the local clock offset. In other words, how fast the local clock offset is changing.

Lower is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0μs.

RMS jitter is field 5 in the loopstats log file.



Local RMS Frequency Jitter

local stability plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Local RMS Frequency Jitter 25.269 25.269 30.819 65.039 142.060 165.464 165.464 111.241 140.195 32.553 68.503 ppb 5.796 17.61

The RMS Frequency Jitter (aka wander) of the local clock's frequency. In other words, how fast the local clock changes frequency.

Lower is better. An ideal clock would be a horizontal line at 0ppm.

RMS Frequency Jitter is field 6 in the loopstats log file.



Local Clock Time Offset Histogram

local offset histogram plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Local Clock Offset -2.683 -2.683 -1.245 -0.023 1.465 1.655 1.655 2.710 4.338 0.817 -0.014 ms -4.68 14.2

The clock offsets of the local clock as a histogram.

The Local Clock Offset is field 3 from the loopstats log file.



Server Offsets

peer offsets plot

The offset of all refclocks and servers. This can be useful to see if offset changes are happening in a single clock or all clocks together.

Clock Offset is field 5 in the peerstats log file.



Server Offset 130.207.244.240

peer offset 130.207.244.240 plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Server Offset 130.207.244.240 -2.785 -2.785 -1.340 0.031 1.194 1.772 1.772 2.534 4.557 0.769 0.018 ms -4.547 14.37

The offset of a server in seconds. This is useful to see how the measured offset is behaving.

The chart also plots offset±rtt, where rtt is the round trip time to the server. NTP can not really know the offset of a remote chimer, NTP computes it by subtracting rtt/2 from the offset. Plotting the offset±rtt reverses this calculation to more easily see the effects of rtt changes.

Closer to 0s is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0s. Typical 90% ranges may be: local LAN server 80µs; 90% ranges for WAN server may be 4ms and much larger.

Clock Offset is field 5 in the peerstats log file. The Round Trip Time (rtt) is field 6 in the peerstats log file.



Server Offset 18.26.4.105

peer offset 18.26.4.105 plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Server Offset 18.26.4.105 -4.835 -4.835 -2.494 -0.364 0.846 1.343 1.343 3.340 6.178 1.038 -0.450 ms -9.172 36.16

The offset of a server in seconds. This is useful to see how the measured offset is behaving.

The chart also plots offset±rtt, where rtt is the round trip time to the server. NTP can not really know the offset of a remote chimer, NTP computes it by subtracting rtt/2 from the offset. Plotting the offset±rtt reverses this calculation to more easily see the effects of rtt changes.

Closer to 0s is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0s. Typical 90% ranges may be: local LAN server 80µs; 90% ranges for WAN server may be 4ms and much larger.

Clock Offset is field 5 in the peerstats log file. The Round Trip Time (rtt) is field 6 in the peerstats log file.



Server Offset 192.5.41.41

peer offset 192.5.41.41 plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Server Offset 192.5.41.41 -6.291 -6.291 -2.111 0.229 1.282 1.609 1.609 3.393 7.900 1.281 -0.006 ms -6.592 28.89

The offset of a server in seconds. This is useful to see how the measured offset is behaving.

The chart also plots offset±rtt, where rtt is the round trip time to the server. NTP can not really know the offset of a remote chimer, NTP computes it by subtracting rtt/2 from the offset. Plotting the offset±rtt reverses this calculation to more easily see the effects of rtt changes.

Closer to 0s is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0s. Typical 90% ranges may be: local LAN server 80µs; 90% ranges for WAN server may be 4ms and much larger.

Clock Offset is field 5 in the peerstats log file. The Round Trip Time (rtt) is field 6 in the peerstats log file.



Server Offset 2001:470:0:2c8::2 (clock.nyc.he.net)

peer offset 2001:470:0:2c8::2 plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Server Offset 2001:470:0:2c8::2 (clock.nyc.he.net) -2.572 -2.572 -2.127 -0.098 0.774 1.458 1.458 2.901 4.030 0.778 -0.263 ms -7.394 23.52

The offset of a server in seconds. This is useful to see how the measured offset is behaving.

The chart also plots offset±rtt, where rtt is the round trip time to the server. NTP can not really know the offset of a remote chimer, NTP computes it by subtracting rtt/2 from the offset. Plotting the offset±rtt reverses this calculation to more easily see the effects of rtt changes.

Closer to 0s is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0s. Typical 90% ranges may be: local LAN server 80µs; 90% ranges for WAN server may be 4ms and much larger.

Clock Offset is field 5 in the peerstats log file. The Round Trip Time (rtt) is field 6 in the peerstats log file.



Server Offset 2604:a880:2:d1::116:d001 (itchy.podsix.net)

peer offset 2604:a880:2:d1::116:d001 plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Server Offset 2604:a880:2:d1::116:d001 (itchy.podsix.net) -3.485 -3.485 -1.764 -0.108 1.032 1.964 1.964 2.796 5.449 0.815 -0.104 ms -6.263 23.64

The offset of a server in seconds. This is useful to see how the measured offset is behaving.

The chart also plots offset±rtt, where rtt is the round trip time to the server. NTP can not really know the offset of a remote chimer, NTP computes it by subtracting rtt/2 from the offset. Plotting the offset±rtt reverses this calculation to more easily see the effects of rtt changes.

Closer to 0s is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0s. Typical 90% ranges may be: local LAN server 80µs; 90% ranges for WAN server may be 4ms and much larger.

Clock Offset is field 5 in the peerstats log file. The Round Trip Time (rtt) is field 6 in the peerstats log file.



Server Offset 2610:20:6f15:15::26 (time-e-g.nist.gov)

peer offset 2610:20:6f15:15::26 plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Server Offset 2610:20:6f15:15::26 (time-e-g.nist.gov) -2.968 -2.968 -1.393 -0.080 1.338 1.631 1.631 2.732 4.598 0.845 -0.058 ms -5.3 17.18

The offset of a server in seconds. This is useful to see how the measured offset is behaving.

The chart also plots offset±rtt, where rtt is the round trip time to the server. NTP can not really know the offset of a remote chimer, NTP computes it by subtracting rtt/2 from the offset. Plotting the offset±rtt reverses this calculation to more easily see the effects of rtt changes.

Closer to 0s is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0s. Typical 90% ranges may be: local LAN server 80µs; 90% ranges for WAN server may be 4ms and much larger.

Clock Offset is field 5 in the peerstats log file. The Round Trip Time (rtt) is field 6 in the peerstats log file.



Server Jitters

peer jitters plot

The RMS Jitter of all refclocks and servers. Jitter is the current estimated dispersion, in other words the variation in offset between samples.

Closer to 0s is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0s.

RMS Jitter is field 8 in the peerstats log file.



Server Jitter 130.207.244.240

peer jitter 130.207.244.240 plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Server Jitter 130.207.244.240 42.773 42.773 49.185 170.868 672.453 991.802 991.802 623.268 949.029 192.322 217.307 µs 2.624 9.407

The RMS Jitter of a server. Jitter is the current estimated dispersion, in other words the variation in offset between samples.

Closer to 0s is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0s.

RMS Jitter is field 8 in the peerstats log file.



Server Jitter 18.26.4.105

peer jitter 18.26.4.105 plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Server Jitter 18.26.4.105 0.038 0.038 0.051 0.281 10.296 17.133 17.133 10.245 17.095 3.676 1.686 ms 0.9375 5.6

The RMS Jitter of a server. Jitter is the current estimated dispersion, in other words the variation in offset between samples.

Closer to 0s is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0s.

RMS Jitter is field 8 in the peerstats log file.



Server Jitter 192.5.41.41

peer jitter 192.5.41.41 plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Server Jitter 192.5.41.41 0.046 0.046 0.073 0.253 3.025 6.067 6.067 2.952 6.021 1.055 0.594 ms 2.172 10.97

The RMS Jitter of a server. Jitter is the current estimated dispersion, in other words the variation in offset between samples.

Closer to 0s is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0s.

RMS Jitter is field 8 in the peerstats log file.



Server Jitter 2001:470:0:2c8::2 (clock.nyc.he.net)

peer jitter 2001:470:0:2c8::2 plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Server Jitter 2001:470:0:2c8::2 (clock.nyc.he.net) 0.028 0.028 0.039 0.145 0.854 1.043 1.043 0.816 1.015 0.220 0.212 ms 2.188 7.666

The RMS Jitter of a server. Jitter is the current estimated dispersion, in other words the variation in offset between samples.

Closer to 0s is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0s.

RMS Jitter is field 8 in the peerstats log file.



Server Jitter 2604:a880:2:d1::116:d001 (itchy.podsix.net)

peer jitter 2604:a880:2:d1::116:d001 plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Server Jitter 2604:a880:2:d1::116:d001 (itchy.podsix.net) 0.044 0.044 0.090 0.204 0.867 1.084 1.084 0.778 1.040 0.245 0.301 ms 2.213 6.114

The RMS Jitter of a server. Jitter is the current estimated dispersion, in other words the variation in offset between samples.

Closer to 0s is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0s.

RMS Jitter is field 8 in the peerstats log file.



Server Jitter 2610:20:6f15:15::26 (time-e-g.nist.gov)

peer jitter 2610:20:6f15:15::26 plot

Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Server Jitter 2610:20:6f15:15::26 (time-e-g.nist.gov) 0.037 0.037 0.063 0.262 1.311 1.816 1.816 1.248 1.779 0.347 0.359 ms 2.472 9.062

The RMS Jitter of a server. Jitter is the current estimated dispersion, in other words the variation in offset between samples.

Closer to 0s is better. An ideal system would be a horizontal line at 0s.

RMS Jitter is field 8 in the peerstats log file.



Summary


Percentiles...... Ranges...... Skew- Kurt-
Name Min1%5%50%95% 99%Max   90%98%StdDev  MeanUnits nessosis
Local Clock Frequency Offset 18.894 18.894 18.911 19.154 19.828 19.949 19.949 0.916 1.055 0.285 19.218 ppm 2.928e+05 1.945e+07
Local Clock Time Offset -2.683 -2.683 -1.245 -0.023 1.465 1.655 1.655 2.710 4.338 0.817 -0.014 ms -4.68 14.2
Local RMS Frequency Jitter 25.269 25.269 30.819 65.039 142.060 165.464 165.464 111.241 140.195 32.553 68.503 ppb 5.796 17.61
Local RMS Time Jitter 154.187 154.187 163.466 285.570 657.029 688.432 688.432 493.563 534.245 145.147 323.996 µs 6.792 20.93
Server Jitter 130.207.244.240 42.773 42.773 49.185 170.868 672.453 991.802 991.802 623.268 949.029 192.322 217.307 µs 2.624 9.407
Server Jitter 18.26.4.105 0.038 0.038 0.051 0.281 10.296 17.133 17.133 10.245 17.095 3.676 1.686 ms 0.9375 5.6
Server Jitter 192.5.41.41 0.046 0.046 0.073 0.253 3.025 6.067 6.067 2.952 6.021 1.055 0.594 ms 2.172 10.97
Server Jitter 2001:470:0:2c8::2 (clock.nyc.he.net) 0.028 0.028 0.039 0.145 0.854 1.043 1.043 0.816 1.015 0.220 0.212 ms 2.188 7.666
Server Jitter 2604:a880:2:d1::116:d001 (itchy.podsix.net) 0.044 0.044 0.090 0.204 0.867 1.084 1.084 0.778 1.040 0.245 0.301 ms 2.213 6.114
Server Jitter 2610:20:6f15:15::26 (time-e-g.nist.gov) 0.037 0.037 0.063 0.262 1.311 1.816 1.816 1.248 1.779 0.347 0.359 ms 2.472 9.062
Server Offset 130.207.244.240 -2.785 -2.785 -1.340 0.031 1.194 1.772 1.772 2.534 4.557 0.769 0.018 ms -4.547 14.37
Server Offset 18.26.4.105 -4.835 -4.835 -2.494 -0.364 0.846 1.343 1.343 3.340 6.178 1.038 -0.450 ms -9.172 36.16
Server Offset 192.5.41.41 -6.291 -6.291 -2.111 0.229 1.282 1.609 1.609 3.393 7.900 1.281 -0.006 ms -6.592 28.89
Server Offset 2001:470:0:2c8::2 (clock.nyc.he.net) -2.572 -2.572 -2.127 -0.098 0.774 1.458 1.458 2.901 4.030 0.778 -0.263 ms -7.394 23.52
Server Offset 2604:a880:2:d1::116:d001 (itchy.podsix.net) -3.485 -3.485 -1.764 -0.108 1.032 1.964 1.964 2.796 5.449 0.815 -0.104 ms -6.263 23.64
Server Offset 2610:20:6f15:15::26 (time-e-g.nist.gov) -2.968 -2.968 -1.393 -0.080 1.338 1.631 1.631 2.732 4.598 0.845 -0.058 ms -5.3 17.18
Summary as CSV file

Glossary:

frequency offset:
The difference between the ntpd calculated frequency and the local system clock frequency (usually in parts per million, ppm)
jitter, dispersion:
The short term change in a value. NTP measures Local Time Jitter, Refclock Jitter, and Server Jitter in seconds. Local Frequency Jitter is in ppm or ppb.
kurtosis, Kurt:
The kurtosis of a random variable X is the fourth standardized moment and is a dimension-less ratio. ntpviz uses the Pearson's moment coefficient of kurtosis. A normal distribution has a kurtosis of three. NIST describes a kurtosis over three as "heavy tailed" and one under three as "light tailed".
ms, millisecond:
One thousandth of a second = 0.001 seconds, 1e-3 seconds
mu, mean:
The arithmetic mean: the sum of all the values divided by the number of values. The formula for mu is: "mu = (∑xi) / N". Where xi denotes the data points and N is the number of data points.
ns, nanosecond:
One billionth of a second, also one thousandth of a microsecond, 0.000000001 seconds and 1e-9 seconds.
percentile:
The value below which a given percentage of values fall.
ppb, parts per billion:
Ratio between two values. These following are all the same: 1 ppb, one in one billion, 1/1,000,000,000, 0.000,000,001, 1e-9 and 0.000,000,1%
ppm, parts per million:
Ratio between two values. These following are all the same: 1 ppm, one in one million, 1/1,000,000, 0.000,001, and 0.000,1%
‰, parts per thousand:
Ratio between two values. These following are all the same: 1 ‰. one in one thousand, 1/1,000, 0.001, and 0.1%
refclock:
Reference clock, a local GPS module or other local source of time.
remote clock:
Any clock reached over the network, LAN or WAN. Also called a peer or server.
time offset:
The difference between the ntpd calculated time and the local system clock's time. Also called phase offset.
σ, sigma:
Sigma denotes the standard deviation (SD) and is centered on the arithmetic mean of the data set. The SD is simply the square root of the variance of the data set. Two sigma is simply twice the standard deviation. Three sigma is three times sigma. Smaller is better.
The formula for sigma is: "σ = √[ ∑(xi-mu)^2 / N ]". Where xi denotes the data points and N is the number of data points.
skewness, Skew:
The skewness of a random variable X is the third standardized moment and is a dimension-less ratio. ntpviz uses the Pearson's moment coefficient of skewness. Wikipedia describes it best: "The qualitative interpretation of the skew is complicated and unintuitive."
A normal distribution has a skewness of zero.
upstream clock:
Any server or reference clock used as a source of time.
µs, us, microsecond:
One millionth of a second, also one thousandth of a millisecond, 0.000,001 seconds, and 1e-6 seconds.



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