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

[Roger Clarke]

On 29/8/19 12:12 pm, Andy Farkas wrote:
> 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
> 
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