[ntp:questions] Re: Best way to harness multiple stratum 1 servers
Garrett Wollman
wollman at csail.mit.edu
Thu Apr 6 19:23:29 UTC 2006
In article <Epadna-QbY3q_6jZRVn-jw at comcast.com>,
Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
>The precision shows as "-21" or about 1 microsecond and, indeed, the
>smallest difference between two consecutive calls to gettimeofday() is
>one microsecond.
gettimeofday(), by definition, returns microseconds.
If you want nanoseconds, you need clock_gettime(). No new code should
be using gettimeofday().
-GAWollman
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