For a brief window this month, the official clocks that quietly coordinate the Internet’s heartbeat slipped out of sync. After a power outage hit key servers in Colorado, the National Institute of ...

Local clock inaccuracy is so miniscule as to not merit mention with respect to NTP. (around three orders of magnitude difference). Click to expand... For bare metal, yes. For virtual, no. Fire up ntpd ...

an NTP server. However, it has been revealed that the NTP server managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was severely affected by the large-scale power outage in Colorado.

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 ...

Researchers at Boston University have uncovered several vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol (NTP) that is used to synchronize the internal clocks on millions of computers worldwide. The ...

A rare case of deliberately trying to induce an outage A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time ...

You're a typical system administrator, with a million and two urgent things to do before you get to go home for the day. Next on your list is bringing up a new NTP server for your department so your ...