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- To: Initial heart <initialheart@xxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [chrony-dev] About 'System time' line in 'chronyc tracking' output
- From: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 14:21:58 +0200
- Cc: chrony-dev <chrony-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Mon, Oct 05, 2026 at 08:12:09PM +0800, Initial heart wrote:
> "System time : %.9O of NTP time\n"
>
> This is misleading when chrony is synchronized to a non-NTP source, for example a GNSS/PPS refclock acting as a stratum-1 NTP server.
>
> In that case the clock is disciplined by GNSS/PPS, not NTP.
"NTP time" here is the chrony's local idea of the true time, which is
served to NTP clients. That works with NTP sources, reference clocks
or no reference at all (local directive).
> Could this be changed to something more generic, such as of reference time, or just omit the qualifier?
That would break any existing scripts expecting that word there.
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Miroslav Lichvar
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