Danny,
Thrupence, I hadn't heard that for 33 years when I was a young lecturer
at the University of Edinburgh. That was a really enjoyable experience
for a young postdoc. Now everything is decimal.
Dave
Danny Mayer wrote:
David L. Mills wrote:
Tim,
A good deal of quality design time went into the statistical analysis
of errors and the manner in which statistics are presented to the
application, in this case via ntp_gettime(). You don't want to know
anything other than the carefully maintained maximum error and
estimated error statistics. Neither the stratum of the server nor the
poll interval nor the precision nor any other statistic is necessary
to evaluate the quality of time. The maximum error and estimated
error already take those factors into account. You really don't want
to second guess what the server is doing, just that it and the local
client are providing dependable statistics.
As I said in my last, your clock is Big Ben and NTP is manipulating
the number of farthings, h'apennies, pence, shillings, pounds and
guineas on the pendulum. [Gawd, after 33 years since decimalization,
I'm not sure I remember how to spell all that coinage.]
Dave
You did forget the threepence, half-crowns, crowns, and florins, all
of which I have in my collection.
I seems to remember reading somewhere that Big Ben actually uses NTP
to stay accurate.
Danny
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