Given a collection of switches all communicating together, will the local time on the switching equipment configuration have any bearing on performance, or just a common reference point when troubleshooting log files and diagnostics?
As it stands default configurations default to a 199x time on boot, and they are all in different time frames in relation to when last booted. Logically I will fix this, but will it change anything other than logging data?
Id est, if I configure all switches to a common NTP server, will it affect performance and or reliability in any form?