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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm kind of curious about the actual accuracy of NTP. When I try to research the topic I hear stuff like "stratum 1 is fractions of a millisecond and stratum 2 is within 100ms" and then I see people ...