[ntp:questions] A faster settling NTP

[David J Taylor]

"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote in message 
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> Anyone who thinks he can boot up, get the correct time to within 
> microseconds and shut down again is living in a dream world!
>
> Windows is a poor choice of O/S for the job.  Try Linux or Solaris. 
> Either will run on the X86 architecture.

But Linux and Solaris will not run all the programs and device drivers I 
need to run!  The OS is a given and is not going to change.  The 
engineering challenge is: given a particular OS, do the best timekeeping 
job you can.

Where did I say I needed microseconds?  In fact settling to within one 
millisecond would be fine for /my/ applications.

I am already down to the level of seeing exactly what Bill was saying 
could be done better with chrony than with NTP - the settling time to a 
given accuracy, so I think that addressing the algorithm rather than the 
choice of hardware is the most important issue here.

How about a dual-algorithm NTP?

Cheers,
David