David Nebenzahl wrote:
You're admonishing me not to use NIST? Why?
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Keep in mind that I use this service *at most* 3 or 4 times a *year*.

David, it depends upon how you use it. If you use Windows' or MacOS's
automatic time sync or *NIX's NTPDATE, you only access it occasionaly.
Windows and Mac access it once a week, NTPDATE does it whenever it is invoked,
usually when you boot your computer.

If you are runnin *NIX NTP deamon (including MacOS's) or a third party Windows
time sync program, your computer is in frequent contact with the time server.
In that case, it would be a good idea not to use those servers as they are
heavily loaded down.

For once in a week sync of one computer, you can use just about any server
without worry about it being overloaded or adding any additional load.

If you have multiple computers networked together, that is a different story.

Geoff.


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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM