[ntp:questions] Time syncing with something other than ntpd

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar at redhat.com
Tue Jan 31 07:11:30 UTC 2017


On 2017-01-30, David Taylor <david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> I have been running NTP on multiple systems since 2002, including Linux 
> and Windows (2000 and later), both with hardware sync (GPS18, GPS18x and 
> multiple GPS devices for the Raspberry Pi), and with LAN and Wi-Fi 
> network sources.  I find NTP easy to manage and monitor over multiple 
> systems, and the fact that it runs on Windows, and can accept GPS 
> devices on Windows very valuable.  You can easily get within 10 
> microseconds in Linux (but be careful of the temperature and GPS antenna 
> location), and within 200 microseconds on Windows when using an attached 
> GPS/PPS device.

Speaking of Windows, does anyone know how well (if at all) work the
NTP implementations in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) that's now
available in Windows 10?

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar



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