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In message <20050202094256.K88344@localhost>, Julian Elischer writes:
>very clever!
>
>however it doesn't phaselock to teh time and still drifts.
>I need to trigger on (for example) 10 second boundaries across 50
>synchronised machines..
>(so thatthe machines agree about the sampling period.)

You'll find code that does it the right way in here:

	http://phk.freebsd.dk/NTPns/

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