Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!daemon From: tcp-ip@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.tcp-ip Subject: Re: voting on the time Message-ID: <10057@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 16:16:50 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10057 Posted: Wed Aug 21 16:16:50 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 14:18:15 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 17 From: Richard Johnson> There are many other things which netdate could do. Once it's chosen > what it thinks is the set of most accurate hosts, it could take the > RMS average, toss out anything which deviates too far, average again, > and use the result as the time. My program takes a simple average, not RMS. However, the rest of the description is exactly what it does. > It could notice the network latency and adjust for it. I do this also. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard Johnson raj@uci.arpa (ARPA) UCI ICS Research Systems Manager ucbvax!ucivax!raj (UUCP)