[time-nuts] Time syncing question

[Glenn]

You could just sync it once a week. 2am everyday is also a fine choice. 
Most RTCs can keep within a second a week, I think. It may seem like a 
really good idea to have super-accurate time on a phone system, but 
(IMHO) I can't see a need for better than one second accuracy. AND, 
every time you set the time, you risk something going wrong with the 
phone system. Seriously. The phone system was likely designed to have 
it's time set once and then left alone and the manufacturer tested only 
that condition. If you update the time frequently, there's a good chance 
that sooner or later, it'll coincide with some other event, which will 
cause someone to be kicked off the conference-call-of-a-lifetime.

Just my $0.02,
glenn


Hal Murray wrote:
>> I'd say one jump if you just want to get the job done, but
>> incrementally if you want a cleaner solution or if you think you might
>> need to do this more than once. 
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> For something like a phone system, I might try just smashing it to the right 
> time at 2 am each morning when there are not likely to be many users.
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