[ntp:questions] More Granularity in the US in the NTP Pool

evandro at mailinator.com evandro at mailinator.com
Sun Sep 9 07:41:23 UTC 2007


I would however add that having time-zone aliases would make it easy
for OS distributions to automatically configure the NTP servers.  For
instance, if one selects US/Eastern as the time-zone, it could pick,
say, est.us.pool.ntp.org or est.north-america.pool.ntp.org.  Whereas
if an user in Hungary selects the E. Europe time-zone the OS could
configure eest.europe.pool.ntp.org.  Right now, the best the OS could
do would be to pick us.pool.ntp.org and europe.pool.ntp.org for these
examples, when someone in ME could end up in sync with a server in OR
and someone in Italy, with a server in Finland.

My point is that just because a time-zone was chosen, it doesn't mean
that it's easy to pinpoint the state or even the country.  Therefore,
for the sake of increasing the likelihood of closer servers, choosing
those among the same time-zone would be an improvement.




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