[ntp:questions] National time standard differences

Hal Murray hal-usenet at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net
Wed Feb 24 21:43:50 UTC 2010


In article <NKKdnYeE0NZq5OzWnZ2dnUVZ_umdnZ2d at giganews.com>,
 "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>cc wrote:

>AFAIK, there is no way to be sure!  What is certain is that using 
>sources that distant from your site leaves plenty of room for error!

Normally, we hope the network delays are symmetric so we can
get good time.  You can turn that around.  If you have good time,
you can use it to measure the network delays in each direction.

Asymmetric network paths are quite common.

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