Synchronization (of clocks) between two remote computers

Question

I\'m looking into writing a simple synchronization ability into my app and one of the concerns that has popped up is synchronization of time between two remote computers, ea

Answer 1

Instead of writing code to synchronise the clocks, wouldn't it be possible to just run an ntp client on both machines?

Alternatively, if the above is not possible and your app is running with sufficient privileges to set the time, I would be tempted to implement a minimal NTP client right in the application and try to sync it against a public server. Just don't hardcode someone's private server in...