[ntp:questions] Number of Stratum 1 & Stratum 2 Peers

[David Woolley]

On 02/12/14 01:59, edstuart at gmail.com wrote:

> At the same time, we want drift less than 1 second. However, over

Drift is a pure number.  If you ever get a time error of more than 
100ms, ntpd is in severe distress.

I think peering is over-rated, and is often associated with time islands 
(all the answers so far assume you are not running  time island, but 
really are synchronised to sources of true time).