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- From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
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- Subject: Re: adjclock - automatically maintain real-time clock
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:51:26 GMT
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- In article <9211181646.AA14462@wendy-fate.UU.NET> kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones) writes:
- >Why bother running a server for this? For what applications is
- >millisecond accuracy with reference to an atomic clock necessary?
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- - AFS
- - Kerberos
- - any other security system involving time-dependant keys
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- It may not require an absolutely correct time, but clocks need to be
- accurate relative to each other.
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- >For most purposes I think this is overkill.
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- Why? It took me minutes to set up, and now I just forget about it.
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- --Dave
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- System Administrator, Population Research Institute barr@pop.psu.edu
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