Hi Judah Levine (probably spelled his name wrong) from NIST has a series of papers on this. They go back into the 90's.
Bob On Oct 24, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Magnus Danielson <[email protected]> wrote: > Fellow time-nuts, > > When spending time on a conference last week, I heard one interesting comment > that they lost data due to bad timing on their Windows servers. > > Now, I know that the standard Windows uses SNTP in order to achieve the goal > of having the timing of the machines sufficiently aligned to allow Kerberos > authentication. SNTP suffice for that, as it needs to be a handful of minutes > in line. > > If you need better performance than that, you should use NTP (and then > download and install Meinbergs Windows-client for NTP). > > Then again, I would point out that for this type of data, it would most > probably be better served on a Linux box. > > What should be a nice wake-up call for them would be a summation of how > different strategies would give them clock precision of sufficient grade. So, > does anyone know of such measurements presented anywhere? > > There are bits and pieces, but the ideal for this case would be if they where > collected in one page/paper. > > This is an awareness thing, so that people can do a little more well-informed > choices. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
