Re: clockspeed and NTP

Frank Tegtmeyer <[email protected]> 28 May 2002 16:33:18 +0200

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Payal <[email protected]> writes:

> Why, aren't NTP servers throughout the world suposed to show the same time?

In fact they are.

> Why does he says try to get an local server?

Because you else have to trust the operators of the public NTP
server (and the communication channel too). Wrong time settings are
not catastrophic in most cases but at least they are annoying.

Regards, Frank