Re: Obvious
"Well, of course they don't foresee any problems. You run experiments to determine if there are problems that you didn't think of."
Like, oh I don't know, setting the clock on a Windows network so that it is a second out. I bet that's never happened before. Oh wait...
This is FUD. The algorithms for NTP are published and almost certainly the same ones as used by Windows Time service. They've been used to synchronise all sorts of rubbish clocks for several decades. (No PC has a decent real-time clock. You used to be able to spend a few hundred quid on an add-in card that did this but the market never took off because it cost so much less to buy a network adapter.) NTP works. If it didn't, networks and servers would collapse because of time sync problems on a daily basis. All sorts of other protocols (like Kerberos) depend on it working over the long term.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
