Leap second tonight
Peter Beckman
beckman at angryox.com
Tue Mar 17 17:30:15 UTC 2009
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> They may suck for being a Stratum-1/2 server, but even the most jittery
> Cisco is still far and away good enough to serve up a ntpdate so that an
> end-user PC-class machine is in the right minute.
As long as the end-user is made aware that the accuracy of said NTP clock
is +/- 30.000 seconds (or whatever jitter might exist). Seems kind of
ridiculous to use an NTP source that is, for many purposes, wildly
inaccurate. For my purposes, wildly is more than +/- 0.1 seconds. Trying
to troubleshoot a problem, network or server, where the timestamps on each
server/router/device vary inconsistently, is like walking on broken
fluorescent bulbs -- painful and dangerous to one's health.
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