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Google turns on free public NTP servers that SMEAR TIME

Paul Crawford Silver badge

Re: We have also a Google time now?

the speed of light is inconsistent in atmosphere

That is why the military GPS used two frequencies, to compensate for ionospheric electron density effects. You can get the same with newer systems like Galileo and from differential GPS, etc.

But if you need us or better time its a challenge for the OS, etc, to respond and stamp the network packets with sufficient stability. For that sort of job you use PTP instead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol

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