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As I mentioned in my Solve an obscure Back to my Mac issue blog entry, it’s possible to configure OS X’s time servers to be a bit more robust than just relying on one time server—if that server goes ...
Sometime on the morning of April 3, Microsoft's Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers went haywire. At first, Microsoft's NTP server (time.windows.com) reported the time being an hour later than it ...
I'm kind of curious about the actual accuracy of NTP. When I try to research the topic I hear stuff like "stratum 1 is fractions of a millisecond and stratum 2 is within 100ms" and then I see people ...
I noticed that our Domain controller is off by approximately 5 minutes the other day. Apparently a known "issue" in the environment for some time, when I raised it with my Manager as a potential issue ...