[ntp:questions] Fwd: Using ntpdate -b SERVER shortly after SERVER boots
Richard B. gilbert
rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Mon Feb 12 23:05:29 UTC 2007
Harlan Stenn wrote:
> Donald,
>
> Have you seen http://ntp.isc.org/Support/StartingNTP4 ?
>
> H
That's an interesting article but it misuses the word "precision".
Precision is a property of your clock and can be thought of as the
smallest possible difference in time that the clock can measure.
A clock can have a precision of 1 microsecond and still be five minutes
slow!
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