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20228: Re: [MUD-Dev] Gearing up against GEAR

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From: Vincent Archer <archer@frmug.org>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:01:25 +0200
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
According to J C Lawrence:

> Posit a Windows box running an NTP daemon that also has a
> significantly wrong system clock.  The relative clock drift
> between your server and the client will change steadily and fairly
> consistently as the NTP daemon slowly adjusts the system clock
> toward reality.

Yes, but by which amount? I don't know about windows NTP daemons,
but the standard xntpd speeds up/slows down the clock by a fraction
of percent only, to avoid timer problems.

The drift measured is part of the consistency check. If you allow
for a 3% tolerance, you cover all normal cases. If your clock drifts
more than that, you have a problem. GEAR or something else.

If NTP on windows is allowed to speed up your clock by a factor of
2, it would be better to just jump the clock to the correct time,
and to hell with skewing the clock :)

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	Vincent Archer			Email:	archer@frmug.org

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