From: hellsop_at_ninehells.com
Date: Sun Jan 08 2006 - 13:20:30 PST
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:19:25PM -0500, Michael Blazer wrote:
> I think that parameter means "don't bother resetting Newton clock unless
> it's out by more than this". In other words, it controls whether the
> sync happens, not how accurate the sync is. But I'm not sure. Anyway,
> I did the same experiment and it didn't work either way.
Right. You don't want the Newt to reset itself to follow a
temporarily-insane timeserver. The Newt's clock is good enough that more
than about a two-minute difference should probably be verified manually.
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