Clock synchronization quality on Windows Azure?

Question

I am looking for quantitative estimates on clock offsets between VMs on Windows Azure - assuming that all VMs are hosted in the same datacenter. I am gu

Answer 1

I've been in conversation with someone from the Azure product team regarding clock synchronisation recently, more out of interest than anything else. The most recent reply I've received is:

The VMs and services take their time directly from the underlying Hyper-V platform upon boot and from that point forward the clock is maintained by the service. In order to have true time sync across a distributed system you will need to do this at the application layer and/or with a service referencing an singular time server.