Re: voting on the time

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From: tcp-ip
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1985 20:16

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From: Richard Johnson <raj@uci-icsa>

> 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.

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Richard Johnson                             raj@uci.arpa          (ARPA)
UCI ICS Research Systems Manager            ucbvax!ucivax!raj     (UUCP)

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