NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all too forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate clock synchronization is required for everything ranging from cryptography to ...

On December 17, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that its NTP server was able to survive a power outage thanks to its backup power system. However, the outage ...

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 ...

BAD PYRMONT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Meinberg Radio Clocks today presented their newest industrial time and frequency synchronization server. The highly compact, rail-mount LANTIME M400/GPS model is ...

A statistical method, developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and tested and implemented with the help of several collaborators, has made the job of analyzing the ...

Timing from atomic clocks is now an integral part of data-center operations. The atomic clock time transmitted via Global Position System (GPS) and other Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) ...

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 ...