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SubjectRe: [RFC] New Time of day proposal (updated 9/2/04)
On 7 Sep 2004 at 11:24, George Anzinger wrote:

> Christoph Lameter wrote:
...
> > I thought the NTP daemon etc would even that out? ITC (TSC on IA64) is
> > used by default on IA64 for all time keeping purposes. The CPU has on chip
> > support for timer interrupt generation.
>
> Yes, and it is designed (read the "rock" is carefully choosen) for time keeping.

Believe me: NTP cannot repair a broken clock; it can only "tune" a clock that is
systematically off.

...

Regards,
Ulrich


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