[LINK] RFI: Clock Synchronisation in Hosts

[Jim Birch]

I hadn't noticed this.  Have you adjusted your time servers?  It seems like
the process might be stuck.

There's some info on the osx time management process here

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/117864/how-can-i-tell-if-my-mac-is-keeping-the-clock-updated-properly

Which includes this gem: "the configuration file is cranky when you choose
to override the Apple-default time servers"


Jim

On 12 November 2014 12:21, Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au> wrote:

> My MacOSX 10.4.11 Date and Time tool has the 'Set date & time
> automatically' option set, pointed at Apple Asia's server at
> time.asia.apple.com.
>
> I find it a serious concern that it doesn't work, and only synchs when I
> open the panel.
>
> Having my clock run fast by c. 5 seconds per day is one thing.  But there
> are a lot of host devices around the place which would create far bigger
> problems if they got significantly out of synch with authoritative time.
>
> What's the impression of Link Institute members about the frequency with
> which hosts in professionally-run organisations synch with time-servers?
>
> A related question would be:  what tolerance would be reasonable to expect
> from date-time stamps compared with an authoritative time-server, e.g.
>  +/- 1 second?
>  +/- 5 seconds?
>
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