Where does my computer get the time from?

Re:Where does my computer get the time from? by asveikau on Thursday October 05, 2023 @01:42PM (#37781578)

I was really bothered that on the website version, the NTP packet diagram is largely illegible. I hope that when they gave this talk on slides, you could read it.

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Re:Where does my computer get the time from? by fanf2 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:45PM (#37783355)

TBH you aren’t supposed to read it, you either say to yourself, oh yes I recognise the NTP packet diagram; or, oh yes, that looks like a packet diagram; or, oh interesting maybe I should look at the NTP RFC. The slide was only up for a couple of seconds :-)

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Re:Where does my computer get the time from? by asveikau on Friday October 06, 2023 @03:39PM (#37795262)

The thing about a good, simple network protocol is you can look at the packet diagram and start to understand how the protocol works. I think NTP fits the bill here.

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