Hi, I want to know that while running client-server applications, how one should synchronize the clock. I mean system clock can't be synchorinize, since server may be in other continent. Please help me ASAP. Thanks in advance Salima
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By regularly exchanging time the two could be kept more or less in synch. My advise is to generally speaking have one server as the reference server... The stupid question is :
Why do you wanna do that at application level while the system could be as well synchronize (system call Time) ? Rgds, Thomas,
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Hi, I am writing a client server application to send an audio file to server and Server will send that file to Client2. I need to calculate the time when the packet start from client1 and reaches server. Since my Clients and Server will run on different m/c's so i won't be having the synchronized clock. System clock on different m/c could show different time. My question is how to synchronize the time in this application. Thanks in advance Salima
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If you are writting the C & the S why don't you calculate the double time : i.e., C --> S --> C. You could then "ping" one from the other ? When I write ping, it may be your own echo-server ! Rgds, Thomas SMETS, SCJP 2 - Brussels
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