I have a cron job script on my LAN hosts periodically running "ntpd -gqn -4" or "ntpd -gqn -6", in case of system clocks going way (think hours) out of sync, depending on network conditions (sometimes ...

I set up my NTP server on Ubuntu and OPNsense for accurate time synchronization across all devices on my local network.

Making sure that every computer in your office displays the correct time and date is essential to keeping your employees in sync and preventing miscommunication in the workplace. Synchronizing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An apparent technical issue with a Microsoft server is leading to a number of users and data centers running Windows to receive the wrong time and date. The issue appears to stem from a network time ...

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 ...