That's probably a very good idea.

We actually have two internal time servers. All our servers are supposed 
to sync with either of them in the event that one goes offline.

We're still trying to figure out how the clocks got so badly out of sync...

John

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:28:23PM +0100, John Sidney-Woollett wrote:
> 
>>Our data centre suffered a power failure on Friday, and it killed our 
>>time server.
> 
> 
> FWIW, anytime I setup machines where keeping time in sync amongst
> themselves is important (a bunch of webservers, maybe), I setup NTP so
> that they all sync off of each other as well as some more authoritative
> source. That way, even if you lose all your external time sources, at
> least all the machines will stay sync'd to each other.