Joe Wulf wrote:
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.
There is not very much that *can* be done for such people. There is
"orphan mode" which I have never used or needed to. Other than that,
NTP has little to offer people who can't get time from outside and have
no authoritative source inside. Maybe they could put a "sun dial" on
the front lawn???
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