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Re: [Scheme-reports] current-posix-second is a disastrous mistake



Thomas Bushnell, BSG scripsit:

> This is still a great misunderstanding. Many computers have perfectly good
> accuracy on that level without any trouble, because they use things like NTP
> to keep themselves in sync.

NTP on the open Internet can keep you accurate to maybe 5-10 ms, no better.

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Dream projects long deferred             John Cowan <cowan@x>
usually bite the wax tadpole.            http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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