Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2009-02-26, Bartholome, Alain <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The primary reason why I need NTP is the synchronization of the systems, >> not the accuracy of time. > > NTP is designed to synchronize computer clocks to a common time base. > > The most commonly used timebase is UTC acquired over a network or via a > radio ref-clock such as GPS. It's cheap. It's ubiquitous. > > A nice side effect of using UTC as your timebase is that your clocks > will be set to the correct time. >
Also remember that any outside source: GPS, ntp server on the network, etc. will have already incorporated the leapsecond into the timestamps that it hands out so you don't have a choice in that. Only if you are in an isolated network with no external source of time does it not matter. Danny -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
