David L. Mills wrote:
Richard,
I can't claim preconition, as the current NTP timestamp format was
invented in 1978 when nominal accuracies were in the 16-ms range.
However, the resolution limit of 232 picoseconds is likely to be
exceeded when the CPU clock rate approaches 4 GHz, which might not be
long off.
I suppose that even a 2 GHz machine could slice time into 500 picosecond
increments. But I was thinking in terms of the ability to set a clock
that accurately. There's no way that I can think of that it could be
done over a network using today's technology. I'm seeing a ~4us delays
on my 100 Mb full duplex LAN. I think that means I can't pass time from
machine A to machine B over my LAN without an uncertainty of ~2us.
The error is probably less than that but probably is the best we can say.
So you could get delta time measurments with 232 picosecond resolution
but getting absolute time accurately with that precsion is not going to
be easy.
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