NTP Pool Project Reaches 500 Servers

A user writes "Finally after 3 years the NTP Pool project has reached 500 servers! The NTP pool project tries to be an accurate and free time-source to every internet-connected device. Everybody who's system has running an NTP daemon which can give an accurate time-indication can join the project. Not only is it handy to have accurate time on your workstation to be able to see when you need to leave the house to catch the train in time, it is also usefull to be able to accurately correlate events between your system and others in case one gets hacked."

oooo so exciting

[SpaceCadetTrav]

Congratulations. If you are reading a Slashdot thread about 500 time servers, you really are a nerd.

Re:500

[Anonymous Coward]

Because its 1 more than 499..

wow...

[Anonymous Coward]

...i never ralized time was so useful! who woulda thunk it.

Confused

[Alarash]

I'm confused. They are supposed to be a reliable time source, and their home page doesn't even show the current time!

Re:oooo so exciting

[Hatta]

Congratulations. If you are reading a Slashdot thread about 500 time servers, you really are a nerd.

And what if you're posting in one?

Re:oooo so exciting

[T-Ranger]

... and if you are posting a comment in it... ah fuck.

Cool

[leathered]

I hope these servers carry alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts.large

Oh, sorry I read that as NNTP

Re:oooo so exciting

[Anonymous Coward]

You know, the part before "stuff that matters"?

I've always wondered about that phrase -- who is this "Matters", and why would I want to stuff him?

Even more puzzling: with what?

Re:500

[leonmergen]

... because they clearly need more publicity to reach something like 5,000 :)

Re:Trains aren't that reliable

[Anonymous Coward]

Stalin!

UIC's "unofficial" time server

[jms]

Back when I was a university system programmer, I had an officemate named Tim. One day, Tim was poking around and discovered that hundreds of computers all across campus were synchronizing their clocks to his desktop workstation. He quickly figured out why.

The naming standard for desktop machines was to take the employee's first name and concatinate it with the first letter of their last name. So my desktop machine was named "johns.cc.uic.edu". Tim's machine was named "time.cc.uic.edu" because his last name began with "E". (cc meaning a "computer center" machine.)

Apparently many many university departments and users poked around and discovered what was obviously an official time server and configured their computers to synchronize to Tim's desktop machine. Tim, of course, had set his computer's clock by the office clock and never given it a second thought.

Re:wow...

[jherrick]

Or spell-checking software!

Re:more useful for nfs, clustering

[ThaFooz]

other than that I don't think I'd bother. a couple of minutes here or there hardly matters.

Yeah, I didn't think it mattered too much on non-critical systems either. Then I ran MythTV and missed the last couple minutes on my Futurama episodes. Never again.