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Ryan Malayter wrote:
 
> First, can anyone outside the continental USA verify that
> time.windows.com is broken globally?

Russia, Lyubertsy, Moscow region. Yes, it seems to me it's broken.
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[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/zetroot ] # ntpdate -q -d time.windows.com            
               [ 16:08 ]
12 Apr 16:11:47 ntpdate[29614]: ntpdate 4.2.0-a Sun May  7 03:20:47 UTC 2006 (1)
transmit(207.46.197.32)
receive(207.46.197.32)
transmit(207.46.197.32)
receive(207.46.197.32)
transmit(207.46.197.32)
receive(207.46.197.32)
transmit(207.46.197.32)
receive(207.46.197.32)
transmit(207.46.197.32)
207.46.197.32: Server dropped: strata too high
server 207.46.197.32, port 123
stratum 16, precision -6, leap 11, trust 000
refid [207.46.197.32], delay 0.25519, dispersion 0.00558
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time:    c9899bb7.74395810  Fri, Feb 23 2007 19:58:31.454
originate timestamp: c9c8a147.a0000000  Thu, Apr 12 2007 16:15:03.625
transmit timestamp:  c9c8a084.0755cab7  Thu, Apr 12 2007 16:11:48.028
filter delay:  0.25539  0.25537  0.25554  0.25519 
         0.00000  0.00000  0.00000  0.00000 
filter offset: 195.4916 195.4804 195.4848 195.4893
         0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
delay 0.25519, dispersion 0.00558
offset 195.489372

12 Apr 16:11:48 ntpdate[29614]: no server suitable for synchronization found
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> Second, assuming Microsoft doesn't fix this quickly, and is actually
> intentionally depracating the time.windows.com service, what does this
> mean for the pool? Will the pool see a sudden surge of Windows clients
> looking for better time? Most people won't notice, but surely many
> thosands of Windows users will see that their clock is more than two
> minutes off...
>  

i don't think that windows could be an OS that would be used for some really 
time-sensitive applications, so i don't think a lot of users will notice 
two-minutes difference..


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