Reply to post: Re: We have also a Google time now?

Google turns on free public NTP servers that SMEAR TIME

Paul Crawford Silver badge

Re: We have also a Google time now?

Google could well have added its servers to the NTP time pool

No, no, and thrice no! Because Googles NTP servers will be telling the wrong time for about a day after every leap second.

Now you might not care, and many others don't case, because all they want is some sort of time-of-day indicator. But heaven help you if you need millisecond or better accuracy for anything like financial HFT, log file forensics or any number of science applications.

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