Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2009-10-22, David Woolley <da...@djwhome.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> I believe that the official policy line is that database systems that >> require monotonic time for their distributed transaction logic are >> fundamentally flawed. > > It is the database people who require monotonic time.
Transaction logic implied databases. > > If there is an "official policy line" it is that any system with a clock > which drifts past the step threshold is fundamentally flawed. Dave Mills on not using NTP for critical database timestamps: <http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.protocols.time.ntp/msg/20d802c94f87c274>. On the other hand, the low end of the ADSL speed range will easily cause 128ms to be exceeded unless both you and your ISP have NTP traffic prioritised. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
