A brief history of time (syncronisation)
Julien Goodwin
Standard (30 minutes) on Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:30 - 16:00 in room Room 3
Time keeping and synchronisation is a critical thing for both developers and systems administrators to keep in mind.
From NTP to GPS, leap seconds to microseconds, and quartz wristwatches to atomic clocks.
This talk gives an introduction to the history of time keeping and synchronisation, and then shows how these apply to large and small-scale IT systems.
Julien Goodwin
Studio442
Julien has long been involved with the Open Source community in Australia, and has spoken at conferences on topics such as System Administration and VoIP Security.