System and Method for Standardizing Clocks in a Heterogeneous Networked Environment

摘要

A system and method for standardizing clocks in the heterogeneous networked environment is provided. In one aspect the duration of time that a message takes to travel from a source machine to a destination machine is decomposed into actual duration time T for transmission,-and time difference. C between the source machine and the destination machine. Two T's for each leg of a round trip transmission is determined and t~ using the two T's is estimated. A measure of each leg of round trip transmission is determined using t~ and C. An offset for a machine within a known delta is established.