On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's not necessarily for the precision, though that's nice.

  If highly accurate time is not needed, I just set the time on a
designated master computer using my wrist watch.  :) Then everything
else sync's to that.  Sure, the master computer's clock might drift by
a few minutes every few months, but everything is internally
consistent, which is often what matters.

  In other words, we don't care if 4:32:27 PM is actually 4:33:11 PM
at the US Naval Observatory, so long as it's the same between two
computers internally.

> It's for the independence from possibly erroneous NTP sources ...

  For our network which does have Internet access, I sync to multiple
disseparate sources, including Microsoft, Apple, the us.ntp.org pool,
a local ISP, and a local university.  I figure that's reasonable
defense against a wonky time server.

-- Ben

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