"Jon KÃ¥re Hellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Under what circumstances *should* the local clock be configured?

Canonically, 'when it is being disciplined by other means'.

In practice, when you want your bottleneck host to keep serving time
even when its Internet connection has (temporarily) failed. That way,
the entire flock stays with it, which is probably preferable to all
of them drifting every which way. The expected variation is halved
immediately; also, an always-on Internet gateway will probably coast
closer to real time than a herd of laptops.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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