[time-nuts] Win XP and NIST time
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Wed Mar 27 18:54:05 UTC 2013
orin.eman at gmail.com said:
> Then all bets are off if you have a CPU that runs at variable speed if you
> want the result to be actual time.
I think that got fixed on newer CPU chips. I don't know when.
Another interesting problem in that area is that the temperature changes with
the CPU load. The crystal on most PCs actually makes a pretty good
thermometer.
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