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What is a network time server?
A network time server is a hardware device that utilises a single time source and distributes it amongst a network to ensure all computers and devices are telling the same time.
What is NTP?
Network Time Protocol is a protocol designed to distribute time across computers. NTP uses an algorithm to work out drift and inaccuracies and compensates for them ensuring all devices on a network are synchronised.
What is UTC?
This article explains how the NIST radio transmission from Fort Collins, Colorado can be use to synchronize a computer network to UTC time.
This article explores the way computers all
over the world can communicate with each other using NTP and UTC time.
The world
is becoming an ever smaller place. Modern technology means that it is just as
easy to make a purchase from the other side of the world as it is buy something
from our local high street.
Everything
from hotels and airline tickets to jewellery and clothes can now be bought from
the other side of the world with just a click of mouse.