On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 06:25:46 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 24 October 2018 11:07:05 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I think that covers what I was going to say, but in an attempt to show > > off my knowledge (or lack thereof) ;-) > > > > As I understand it, NTP tries to get an approximate correct time for > > each client machine by doing something like measuring the round trip > > time to the server and back, then dividing by two, and applying that > > as a correction to the broadcast time from the NTP server. > > > > That was my understanding "back in the day" and I assume something > > similar is still occurring. > > > > On the other hand, it is hard to imagine that computers on your LAN > > have a latency anywhere near 70 seconds in communication from your NTP > > "server" on the same LAN (the one broadcasting the time). > > Standard pings are in the 1 millisecond range.
Not the problem, for sure!
