[LINK] Apple Asia's Time-Server is >2 minutes fast

[Andy Farkas]

On 29/08/2019 11:43, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> On 29/08/2019 11:15 am, Roger Clarke wrote:
>> Very strange.
>>
>> By switching to the European server, I got proper time back.
>>
>> Not good if you're running anything that requires notary-level DTS.
>>
> If time is that important you should be using NTP/Stratum technology
>
> https://ntpserver.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/ntp-server-stratum-levels-explained/
>

Why not go straight to the source: http://www.ntp.org/

The time server at Apple Asia seems ok to me:

# ntpdate -q time.asia.apple.com
server 17.253.82.125, stratum 1, offset 0.019416, delay 0.19731
server 17.253.66.253, stratum 1, offset 0.004917, delay 0.06952
server 17.253.66.125, stratum 1, offset 0.003579, delay 0.07239
29 Aug 12:08:04 ntpdate[56377]: adjust time server 17.253.66.253 offset 
0.004917 sec

-andyf