On 8/16/2009 10:12 PM isw spake thus:

Functionally impossible. By adding money, you can reduce the drift rate
but you can't make it zero. Period.

I don't care about zero. One minute a month is plenty accurate enough
for me.

Just use NTP. And *stay away* from the stratum one servers like NIST;
they have better things to do than keep your computer's clock on
time.

You're admonishing me not to use NIST? Why?

After all, they offer this service to me. See
http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm:

The NIST Internet Time Service (ITS) allows users to synchronize
computer clocks via the Internet. The time information provided by
the service is directly traceable to UTC(NIST). The service responds
to time requests from any Internet client in several formats
including the DAYTIME, TIME, and NTP protocols.

So why shouldn't I use them?

Keep in mind that I use this service *at most* 3 or 4 times a *year*.


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