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Jamie9912
on Nov 11, 2022
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Amazon Time Sync is now available over the interne...
Can't ping time.aws.com. When I mtr it, it's over 60 milliseconds away, I think i'll stick to time.cloudflare.com which pings in 5 milliseconds
rswail
on Nov 11, 2022
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How is ping latency a measure of time accuracy?
sgtnoodle
on Nov 11, 2022
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It's a bound on inaccuracy from assumptions made about communication delays? I believe a protocol like NTP assumes delays are symmetric, and uses half the round trip time. There's no guarantee that delays are symmetric or repeatable, though.
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