time.time() under load between two machines

[kwharrigan at yahoo.com]

I am seeing negative latencies of up to 1 second.  I am  using ntp to
synchronize both machines at an interval of 2 seconds, so the clocks
should be very much in sync (and are from what I have observed).  I
agree that it is probably OS, perhaps I should hop over to a Microsoft
newsgroup and pose the question, although I'm sure they will find a way
to blame it on Python.