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
> 
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