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I experience time drift with devices not connected to NTP like cheap stopwatch/microwave clock/etc, but my all my devices connected to NTP stay synced on their own.

For example:

- Windows time settings says: "Last successful time synchronization: 3/7/2024..." (This was ~41 hours ago and not manually triggered.)

- https://time.is/: "Your clock is 0.4 seconds ahead."

I'm a little surprised there is a 0.4 second difference, but it doesn't seem to affect syncing via Dropbox/Google files.

Perhaps the answer is that time that is accurate to within a second or so of precision is good enough for most consumers.




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