On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:56:44 -0600, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Modern timekeeping systems have primarily been put in place for the > benefit of the humans using the computers, not so much the computers > themselves. The reason that things like NTP are so accurate is not > because the majority of people using them NEED them to be so accurate, > but because:
There's another reason to keep your computer well-synched, and that's if you're performing micro-benchmarks. If you're really interested in how many microseconds something takes (say because you're going to scale it by a factor of several million), then you'd like to know at what rate your clock tends to drift, and by how much that varies. If you're just interested in having a reasonably accurate clock (within a minute), then you certainly need less precision. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
