SLUG - May 2014 - A Brief History of Time Synchronisation by Julien Goodwin.
Channel: Sydney Linux User Group
Date: 2014-05-30

Managing time is one of the minor, but most critical tasks of a sysadmin. This talk explains clock strata (quality), accuracy, and synchronisation methods for both general purpose servers, and more specialised hardware. It also covers some of the danger areas like leap seconds.

Julien is a Network Engineer at Google Sydney, working day-to-day maintaining one of the worlds largest IP networks. In the past he has worked as a (primarily Linux) Sys Admin on educational networks, and in small businesses. He has a long history working with the Australian FOSS community and was a member of the LCA2008 team.