What Is NTP? How Does It Synchronize Time?

Basically, a client requests the current time from a server, and uses it to set its own clock. Behind this simple description, there is a lot of complexity.

2013年2月13日 — somewhere will set (step) the local clock from a synchronized specified server, like the (dep‐ recated) ntpdate(8), or rdate(8) commands. It ...

2022年1月11日 — By default the chrony NTP client will perform a time synchronization every 64 seconds. Closing Thoughts. In this tutorial, we saw how to ...

NTP is intended to synchronize all participating computers to within a few milliseconds of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... It uses the intersection ...

2023年12月15日 — A synchronization interval of 15 minutes to 1 hour is usually sufficient for most systems. Consider using a local NTP server if you have one.

4 天前 — The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is designed to synchronize the system time over the network. ... Activate Quick Initial Sync to speed up the time ...

You can easily keep your system's date and time accurate by using networktime protocol (NTP).Having an accurate clock on your server ensures that timestamps ...

Once synchronized, the client updates the clock about once every 10 minutes, usually requiring only a single message exchange, in addition to client-server ...

NTP is a protocol used to synchronize the clocks of hosts on a network to the UTC time. The precision of NTP can reach 1 ms on a LAN and tens of milliseconds on ...