[OT] NTP servers - was Re: Kernel clock issue "Clocksource tsc unstable"

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Sat Feb 28 04:22:22 UTC 2009


NoOp wrote:

> 
> I also purposely remove the ntp.ubuntu.com/canonical servers; I' don't
> mind providing some data, but sync'ing to them just seems a little big
> brother/Microsoft'ish to me.
> 
>

Unless you're doing something that's extremely time sensitive (such as
synchronizing to those time based RSA security tokens) I don't really
see the point to synchronizing with ntp at all.   Any functioning clock
should be able to keep track of wall time within a few seconds accuracy
per month.




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