ntp inquiry

[Christopher Browne]

On 6/4/05, Stewart C. Russell <scruss-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> David Thornton wrote:
> > 
> > At allstream we use it in our golden master and it's great.. I never
> > have to worry about time .. well nearly never.
> 
> That's good to know -- but how accurate is it? A government agency I
> know of doesn't use NTP but some proprietary solution, as they don't
> think NTP is accurate enough. I dunno if that's bias, or fact, or issues
> with Windows's implementation of NTP.

There are issues with the Microsoft implementation of their "network
time protocol" server; the problem is that it isn't actually NTP.
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