[tz] Google moves beyond NTP

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Nov 26 20:40:51 UTC 2012


Ted Cabeen <ted at cabeen.org> writes:

> Interesting article on how Google has moved beyond NTP, with a mention 
> of last year's leap second:
> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/google-spanner-time/

It would be interesting to have more details, since that article makes a
lot of Google not using NTP and then proceeds to describe a network
protocol that sounds exactly like NTP, down to how it distributes stratum
zero clock sources to other systems in the same data center.  So it's not
clear exactly what they changed.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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