[ntp:questions] NTP internal server?
Hal Murray
hmurray at suespammers.org
Fri Oct 27 15:47:05 UTC 2006
>The problem is not so much the software; that's readily available and
>free, but the time source. The typical computer does not keep time very
>well; most systems gain or lose several seconds a day. Using such a
>clock as a time source means that, while all your systems are more or
>less in synchronization none of them have the correct time. In a really
>bad case, all the systems could gain or lose twenty to thirty minutes a
>month.
I'd expect you could get to a few seconds a week by hand tuning
the drift. That assumes your system is running in a reasonably
stable temperature.
Has anybody done the experiment recently?
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