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Which is what Google did to have a quality time-source for synchronized time for their global database: https://www.wired.com/2012/11/google-spanner-time/ http
by AceJohnny2 5y ago
Which is what Google did to have a quality time-source for synchronized time for their global database:
https://www.wired.com/2012/11/google-spanner-time/ https://www.wired.com/2012/11/google-spanner-time/
- jlgaddis 5y ago> ... quality time-source ... Except they decided to "smear" leap seconds [0], instead of handling them appropriately. For that reason, if you "require correct timestamps for legal purposes" [1], you may want to make sure that you aren't using Google's NTP servers. (N.B.: Amazon (AWS) too, FWIW.) --- [0]: https://developers.google.com/time/smear https://developers.google.com/time/smear [1]: https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/leapsmear.html https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/leapsmear.html