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Timeline for System time coming through SSH?

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Jun 24, 2017 at 14:08 comment added SDsolar Good morning, @Steve. Actually it does. It is UTC so works everywhere. That particular URL is "smart" so no matter where you call it from it will find the quickest-responding Stratum-1 server for you. Here is more information about that: nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/… - of course, GPS is better everywhere in the world if you need better accuracy. Here's a great article on how Google does it world-wide: wired.com/2012/09/google-spanner
Jun 24, 2017 at 4:54 comment added Steve Robillard @sdsolar NIST May make sense in North America but it does not make sense for everyone in the world.
Jun 24, 2017 at 4:51 comment added SDsolar Fresh installs have it pick up time from a variety of sources that can be many hops from the Master Clock. For details, and for the reason why you should change it to time.nist.gov, see this Q&A: raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/68811/…
Feb 17, 2017 at 17:06 history edited tlhIngan CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jul 16, 2012 at 17:13 history answered Steve Robillard CC BY-SA 3.0