[time-nuts] Win XP and NIST time

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Wed Mar 27 14:54:05 EDT 2013


orin.eman at gmail.com said:
> Then all bets are off if you have a CPU that runs at variable speed if you
> want the result to be actual time. 

I think that got fixed on newer CPU chips.  I don't know when.

Another interesting problem in that area is that the temperature changes with 
the CPU load.  The crystal on most PCs actually makes a pretty good 
thermometer.

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