This is an important topic. "Keeping time in sync" is a cornerstone to technology from gps to ssl, from hft to big data. I was sent back to school recently when I saw "chrony" and not ntp on my centos 7 box. I'm not sold yet. And i've not finished reading the horrible documentation for it. " The NTP time stamp is part of how equities firms show that trades took place when they say they did" - False. Ntp is not precise enough. My finance client's use ptp not ntp. David On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Stewart C. Russell <scruss@gmail.com> wrote:
A slightly disheartening tale of NTP's possible future: <http://www.informationweek.com/it-life/ntps-fate-hinges-on-father-time/d/d-id/1319432> <http://www.informationweek.com/it-life/ntps-fate-hinges-on-father-time/d/d-id/1319432> . (via MetaFilter, which has a few decent comments on the matter: <https://www.metafilter.com/147900/NTP-or-Not-NTP-That-is-the-question> <https://www.metafilter.com/147900/NTP-or-Not-NTP-That-is-the-question>)
cheers, Stewart
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