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Set Your Clocks With Pooled NTP Servers

Posted by timothy on from the do-it-now-do-it-accurately dept.

flok writes "Since we all want to have the time correctly set on our servers we all want to synchronize to some ntp-server. Not everyone has such an NTP server available, so that is why www.pool.ntp.org was started. If your server is synced to some discrete timesource like GPS or something like that you can also join the group to help this initiative!"

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  1. I for one... by roseblood · · Score: 2, Funny

    welcome our well timed overlords.

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  2. Cosmic clock drift by Chemisor · · Score: 2, Funny

    > because Tick and Tock have been corrected for
    > cosmic clock drift, while the gps clocks have not been so adjusted.

    I am sure you are reaping great benefits from knowing what time it is to sixteen decimal places.

  3. Re:NIST? by MasTRE · · Score: 3, Funny

    > Unless you want time to get really unreliable

    Ah, words only a true geek could utter ;) And get..

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  4. Re:Many publicly available time servers by devphil · · Score: 2, Funny


    You find a computer-based application that I use which misbehaves in the presence of cosmic clock drift, and then I'll care about GPS correction. :-) Until then, what's the point?

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