Rick Thomas wrote:
Using ntp to set the time should be a short operation. If it
takes a long
time, the validity of the time that results is in question -- by
virtue of
the process[*] being used.
Careful, you're confusing SNTP and NTP. You're also
oversimplifying. NTP
is very good at correcting for latency and other issues and is capable
of accuracies of a few milliseconds over the network. (Far less than
typical round trip times.) SNTP, which rdate uses, can also correct
for
latency, but is supposed to be less accurate. How much less, I'm not
sure, but it's not going to be in the order of minutes of innaccuracy,
and I'd be suprised if it was in the order of seconds of innaccuracy.
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see shy jo