[asterisk-users] OT: Polycom time sync - sorta

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 02:27:06PM -0400, Dave Fullerton wrote:
> 
>>I have a couple polycom phones (501 and 601) I'm messing around with and 
>>I've noticed something weird. Both phones synchronize their clocks to a 
>>central NTP server here on our network and both phones are 11 seconds 
>>slow. All of our servers, switches, routers and PCs also sync to this 
>>time source and are spot on. Even the budgetone 101 is spot on. Has 
>>anyone else experienced this? I know I'm being anal retentive but it's 
>>driving me nuts.
> 
> 
> Your network's NTP server is a GPS clock, without outside references,
> isn't it?
> 
> Read this: http://gpsinformation.net/main/gpstime.htm
> 
> And let your clock chime the outside world.  :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra

jra,

	Woa!  They need to update that article!  President Clinton ended 
selective availability over six years ago:

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/FGCS/info/sans_SA/docs/statement.html

	Not that it has anything to do with the 11 seconds, but it is still a 
good thing to know.

--
Kristian Kielhofner