Group, With due humbleness and respect to both 'cnoyes2' (the original author) and Steve Kosteke---I would think he (cnoyes2) isn't concerned with whether the clocks are monotonic (whatever that is).
I understand and fully agree that unmanaged clocks, which are not sync'd to an authoritative time-source will drift, and it can get horrible and other bad things can happen. Got that. What seems to get lost, and admittedly not explained very well---hence my attempt here.... is that there are many situations these days where folks are developing, working, troubleshooting real-world problems in environments big and small that are deliberately isolated (and rightfully so)---and just don't have the luxury of an authoritative time-source -- but just want time to 'work' and be sync'd. They are not going to get an authoritative time-source. They are not knowledgeable/experienced with ntp (raises my own hand high here). They need meaningful technical advice (ideally from this community), broken down into layman's terms, on how to establish 'the best that can be possible' in a private environment knowing it will never get to have an authoritative time-source. In other words---how can we broaden folks knowledge of ntp, in enjoyable ways, tell them first what they CAN do and solve their ntp problems along the way? R, -Joe Wulf Senior IA Engineer/ISSE ProSync Technology Group, LLC ----- Original Message ---- > From: Steve Kostecke <koste...@ntp.org> > To: questions@lists.ntp.org > Sent: Fri, March 19, 2010 2:56:14 PM > Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Quick sync between two computers not connected > to the internet > > > On 2010-03-19, cnoyes2 < > > href="mailto:cnoy...@gmail.com";>cnoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm trying to sync the time on 2 Windows XP computers that are not on > > the internet and never will be. For testing purposes, they need to > > have the same time. The time does not need to be accurate. > > You're not concerned about whether or not the clocks are stable or monotonic? > > Steve Kostecke _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
