[ntp:questions] Re: Time sync with milliseconds with Windows XP

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Tue Sep 6 13:26:28 UTC 2005


At 6:03 AM -0700 2005-09-06, Magnus wrote:

>  And if the computers a under an Active Directory domain that are used
>  to do the sync, is it the same with the precision?

	If you use Active Directory to sync them, then they're going to 
have the same problems as if you had used w32time.  It's the same 
underlying code, and has the same problems.

	The best time sync you can get is from "real" NTP, and that's 
only going to be able to do so much under Windows.

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