Most Hackaday readers will be familiar with the idea of a network time server; a magical box nestled away in some distant data center that runs the Network Time Protocol (NTP) and allows us to ...

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a highly scalable internet protocol that helps determine the most accurate time information and synchronizes the time settings on a computer system. In order to ...

[Jeff Geerling] has been following the various open source time projects for some time now, and is finally able to demonstrate a working and affordable solution for nanoseconds-accurate timekeeping in ...

Most computer system clocks will drift a little bit and gain or lose time if they are not synchronized to a network time server or reset regularly. Most server operating systems include at least basic ...

Can anyone point me to a reliable public NTP time server service? I've been told that I have 2 weeks to find a provider, open the firewall and get it running for an Active Directory rollout. You would ...

As I mentioned in my Solve an obscure Back to my Mac issue blog entry, it’s possible to configure OS X’s time servers to be a bit more robust than just relying on one time server–if that server goes ...

The Windows Time service is responsible for maintaining the synchronization process with time servers. If this service is not functioning correctly, it can cause the time synchronization to fail. Here ...