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icodestuff on Nov 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Public NTP – free, global time service

Huh. Last time I looked, Google was actively discouraging people from using its NTP servers, as they weren't terribly reliable (lots of intraday drift). I guess they fixed it?

booi on Nov 21, 2017 [–]

Maybe because they use time skew to correct for leap seconds and don't want everybody to get it for free?

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