Sometime on the morning of April 3, Microsoft's Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers went haywire. At first, Microsoft's NTP server (time.windows.com) reported the time being an hour later than it ...

In order for a server in your business to sync its time with that of a client computer, it needs to use what is known as Network Time Protocol (NTP). When your NTP server is working correctly, all ...

Windows Time Service, an implementation of Network Time Protocol, ensures that the clocks on all client workstations connected to a network are synchronized. Clients associated with an Active ...

Local clock inaccuracy is so miniscule as to not merit mention with respect to NTP. (around three orders of magnitude difference). Click to expand... For bare metal, yes. For virtual, no. Fire up ntpd ...

A mysterious issue is affecting the default Windows NTP server (time.windows.com), according to multiple complaints coming from Reddit and Twitter users, screwing up everyone's computer clocks. Based ...

Setting up a Unix system to be an NTP client is generally straightforward. On those Unix platforms that include NTP in the default configuration, you may only need to make a few adjustments to NTP’s ...

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 ...

The number of NTP (Network Time Protocol) servers that can be abused to amplify DDoS attacks has decreased dramatically this year, but the threat remains. DDoS (distributed denial of service) ...

Cheap GPS units are readily available nowadays, which is great if you have something that needs to be very precisely located. Finding the position of things is one of many uses for GPS, though. There ...

Last week’s column introduced NTP, the Network Time Protocol and the concept of highly accurate timekeeping. While numerous commands exist to help system administrators maintain fairly accurate time ...