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

[Brian McKee]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> 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.

as you wish - but I don't recall ntp sending any data the other way
worth mentioning...

>
> 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.
>

You must have better quality systems than some of mine then - I've got
units with good batteries that wander several minutes out of whack in
a month without ntp all the time.