[SunHELP] Stratrum ?

[Dale Ghent]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Sangbutsarakum, Patai wrote:

| > Dear folks
| > I really have no idea, knowledge about time sync, stratrum.
| > Please appologize if it non-sense or it was well known information.
| >
| > If I see 2 time servers have the same stratum level ,
| > can I conclude that time on both servers is exactly same.?
| > If same, It imply that I can sync time with any one of both, am i correct?

No, two servers being in the same stratum only guarantees that they will
be very close in time, but not exactly the same. There will always
(sometimes immeasurable) variations.

To find out more about NTP, go to http://www.ntp.org/

/dale