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How to Sync computer Time in a network? [message #55896]

Mon, 28 December 2020 10:05

sinpeople
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Registered: October 2020
Location: Singapore

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Hi folks,

In a network where multiple clients reporting timing-sensitive information to a server, how can the synchronization of computer time be done in this situation? Time accuracy needs to be <10ms difference in all computers.

Thank you!

Best Regards
David

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Re: How to Sync computer Time in a network? [message #55897 is a reply to message #55896]

Mon, 28 December 2020 13:21

dolik.rce
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Registered: August 2008
Location: Czech Republic

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Hi,

This should be the job of the system administrator(s) of those computers Smile

Network time protocol is usually used to take care of this. There are many implementations of NTP servers and clients for all platforms, so it should be an easy task.

Best regards,
Honza

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Re: How to Sync computer Time in a network? [message #55899 is a reply to message #55896]

Mon, 28 December 2020 14:22

mr_ped
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Registered: November 2005
Location: Czech Republic - Praha

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sinpeople wrote on Mon, 28 December 2020 10:05

Time accuracy needs to be <10ms difference in all computers.

With modern 100Mbit networks you have some chance to achieve this, but it's far from "guaranteed", and also I'm struggling to see how you will verify it.

Plus the PC itself will drift over time from the accurate time, not sure what modern PC numbers are, but back in 90's the PC RTC did drift couple of seconds per day, so you should resync often.

Overall if you *must* have all computers synced all the time, and you have no fallback/recovery plan, I have very bad feel about this, you probably shouldn't use PC and Internet for such task.

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