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		askbjoernhansen on Sept 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: time.apple.com (17.253.14.253) is returning the wr... You are mixing up the 'reference time' and the bits of the NTP packet you are supposed to use to actually set the time. The reference time is not it.

vkoskiv on Sept 7, 2023 [–]

You are correct, it seems! Still weird though why Apple's reference timestamp on this particular server is so far off? Thanks for pointing this out!

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