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TCP time servers should resync with NTP #6

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aaaaalbert opened this issue Dec 30, 2014 · 2 comments
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TCP time servers should resync with NTP #6

aaaaalbert opened this issue Dec 30, 2014 · 2 comments
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Currently, the TCP time server syncs its local clock exactly once, when it is started: https://github.com/SeattleTestbed/timeserver/blob/master/time_server.repy#L89

This leaves the timestamps it returns subject to clock drift, wander, etc. of the machine's clock.

We should add a thread that regularly updates the clock using time_updatetime, perhaps every hour.
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asm582 commented Jan 2, 2015

working on this ticket...

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asm582 commented Jan 18, 2015

I have used createthread to add a separate thread and call updatetime method every 15 mins.

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