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not-a-llmyesterday at 7:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

if you need below 1 millisecond time accuracy, probably you know what you are doing and you wont mix NTP servers (and I think you need PTP for that)


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lesamyesterday at 11:10 PM

Until you work in financial markets and you want to measure latency vs a bunch of other servers you don't own, all of whom pick different smears (and some of whom aren't sure in advance which smears).

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chapsyesterday at 7:59 PM

You'd think so. Legacy servers that've been running for ten years really puts a hitch in that.