Re: Understand why system clock is bad even though chrony offsets look fine

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> On Mon, 20 May 2024, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
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>> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 06:01:10PM +0530, Abhijith Sethuraj wrote:
>>> > Is this server synchronized to the same NTP server as the computer
>>>> running the client application? What root distance does it report?
>>> The server is synchronized to another NTP server that we don't have 
>>> control
>>> over. So, I don't think it's possible for me to give you the root 
>>> distance.
>>> It's safe to assume that the server's time is good, as they have a lot of
>>> other clients apart from us and no one else reported any issues.

Actually that is usually a lie. It is used by companies to get rid of
complaints without doing anything. "No one else complains". It is also true
that if someone does complain it usually represents a huge number of others
who have problems and who do not complain, either because they do not notice
the problems, or do not complain because it is too much trouble.


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