"Steve Kostecke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 2007-01-18, Maarten Wiltink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> <NTP with local clock only> won't make the real time magically >> appear on that server. > > There's more to it than that. > > Without a proper "time base" how is NTP supposed to ensure that one > second is acceptably close (i.e. +/- a handful of ms) to one second? A handful of milliseconds is several thousand PPM. Few crystals are _that_ bad. NTP requires a 'reasonable' crystal to begin with. Witness the problems with speedstepping notebooks. But this is one of the areas where operation without a proper time reference is degraded, and awareness of that is a good thing. Groetjes, Maarten Wiltink _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
