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> and the one hosted in Washington state tends to have network path asymmetry, resulting in a large time offset reported

The NTP algorithm compensates for delays in network traffic. It will result in a less accurate time, but it does not cause an offset in the resulting time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol#Clock_sy...




Only if the delay is symmetric, as your link discusses. (asymmetric delay isn't really measurable without good time synchronization of course)




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