In a web farm environment, should we base the system date/time to the web servers or the database se

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Assuming there are a number of load-balanced web servers in a web farm, is it safe to use DateTime.Now in the application code for getting the system date/time or should we leave this responsibility to the database server?

Would there be a chance that machine date/time settings on all servers in the webfarm are out of sync?

If date/time will be the responsible of the DBMS, how will this strategy work if we have load-balanced replicated DBs?

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