[time-nuts] Do any regulations or laws require time to be accurate within ‘x’ seconds?

Robert Darlington rdarlington at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 16:58:24 UTC 2008


There is no law or regulation that requires this though, just a technical
requirement.  Apparently the Nortel VPN client requires it too, as I just
had to fix my timezone info to get connected to work!

-Bob

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Scott McGrath <scmcgrath at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes -
>
> PCI (Payment Card Industry) for one, Active Directory for another that
> needs timing withing 30 seconds  - why do you ask?.
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Gretchen Baxter
> <gretchendenisebaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > There are a lot of regulations that mandate synchronized time.
> >
> > But do any of these regulations or laws require time to be accurate
> within
> > 'x' seconds?  Such as, 'time much be synchronized within 5 seconds of GPS
> > time.
> >
> > Thanx,
> >
> > Gretchen
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