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Re:Splitting the Ping by IgorPartola on Monday March 01, 2021 @11:44PM (#26311977)
I thought NTP specifically did account for transit latency. Not sure why I made that assumption, but if it’s not true, how can I ever trust my clock to be correct?
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Re:Splitting the Ping by detaro on Monday March 01, 2021 @11:49PM (#26312002)
As the article says, it does account for it. It just can't account for unknown constant asymmetric latency.

> how can I ever trust my clock to be correct?

what does it mean for your clock to be "correct"? If you need your time to be precise to more than a few 100ms you probably shouldn't be getting it from random NTP servers over unknown connections, but for most people that's an acceptable error.

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