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Re:The end of a myth: Distributed transactions can scale by withinboredom on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @03:59AM (#35522194)
With A ISP, not my ISP. Also, I’m syncing with a Stratum 0 servers which are connected to an atomic clock and several GPS clocks.

Also, consistency and accuracy are orthogonal to each other. My servers clocks are consistent and fairly accurate in regards to global time.

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Re:The end of a myth: Distributed transactions can scale by rezonant on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @04:01AM (#35522210)
Ah yes, I figured as much, this is why I skipped over the GPS and satellite parts initially. Having a high quality highly local NTP source is better than most sources, but it is nowhere near as close as having your own local time sources, which is what a lot of time sensitive installations do.
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