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

[Ray Parrish]

Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:33:19AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote:
>   
>> Who cares when it wanders - on or off - I'd rather send one lousy UDP
>> packet every once in a blue moon to my own router and keep everything
>> actually at the right time.  I just don't see why you WOULDN'T do it!
>>     
>
> Amen. Give me precision over slop. As to anything functioning
> as a server, you just *have* to have accurate time keeping. 
>   
That's exactly the way I feel. I like accurate time so much, that even 
my wrist watch synchronizes with the time servers via radio signals. All 
of the clocks in my house trip along with the same time on them, except 
for the coffee pot, which tends to run fast.

Later, Ray Parrish

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