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Re:Amazon Time Sync Service by gnu8 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:47PM (#29113837)
None of this has to do with Amazon though. I am very uncomfortable with Amazon (or the others) pretending that they invented precision timekeeping and that it is a special feature only they have because it seems like a lot of people believe it and build systems that rely on an API that is proprietary to a cloud vendor rather than just installing ntp.
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Re:Amazon Time Sync Service by foota on Thursday November 04, 2021 @10:36PM (#29114886)
Traditional systems don't offer the same guarantees, do they?
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Re:Amazon Time Sync Service by NavinF on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:24AM (#29116044)
Yes they do. See thread above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29104177
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Re:Amazon Time Sync Service by foota on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:47AM (#29116135)
Right, but you won't get a _good_ global error bound without doing the same amount of work. Do you have atomic clocks lying around?
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Re:Amazon Time Sync Service by NavinF on Saturday November 06, 2021 @06:12PM (#29134294)
Yes I do, an Rb standard. You can buy them on eBay. It’s completely optional and only has any effect when GPS reception is down.
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