Tuesday, July 04, 2023

Re: ntpd and ppm

J Doe <general@nativemethods.com> wrote:

> On 2023-07-04 17:27, Martin Schröder wrote:
>
> > Am Di., 4. Juli 2023 um 23:20 Uhr schrieb J Doe <general@nativemethods.com>:
> >> I checked: man ntpd and: man 2 adjfreq, and while: man 2 adjfreq
> >> mentions the same unit - "ppm" - it doesn't explain what that means.
> >>
> >> What does "ppm" stand for ?
> >
> > microseconds per second.
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Ah, I see! From Google there was a link that referenced PPM with a
> different: ntpd implementation and it mentioned "Parts Per Million", but
> I was confused by that as I have only heard of Parts Per Million with
> pollution / chemistry ... but microseconds per second makes sense.

You mean lime "1 in a million" is the same as "microseconds per second"?

There's always jobs for people who can't do simple math.

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