NTP Time Server – A Brief NTP History

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• Network Time Protocol (NTP) – Understanding Synchronisation. Network Time Protocol seems to have been around for ever. In fact it is indeed one of the Internet’s oldest protocols having been developed in the 1980’s by Professor David Mills and his team from Delaware University. In a laid-back world it perhaps doesn’t matter if computer networks are not synchronised. The only consequences of timing errors could be that an email arrives before it was sent but in industries such as airline seat reservation, the stock exchange or satellite communication, fractions of a second can cause serious errors such as selling seats more than once, the loss of millions of ...
  
  
• NTP and the NTP Server Network Time Protocol (NTP) has been around for nearly 25 years. It is one of the Internet’s oldest protocols and is still widely used and under constant development. NTP was developed and designed in 1985 by Professor David Mills from the University of Delaware in the United States. Its success owes much to the fact that it was one of the first ever protocols on the Internet and was first used when the World Wide Web was in its infancy. The importance of NTP on modern computer networks cannot be stressed highly enough, without NTP and NTP servers many of the applications ...
  
  
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• How an NTP Server Works Network Time Protocol (NTP) is one of the Internet’s oldest protocols still in use. Invented by Dr David Mills from the University of Delaware it has been utilized since 1985. NTP is designed to synchronize the clocks on computers and networks across the Internet or Local Area Networks (LANs). NTP (currently version 4)  is actually three things in one; a software program that runs in the background of Windows or UNIX; a protocol that exchanges time values between servers and clients; and a suite of algorithms that process the time values to advance or retreat the system clock. NTP uses an algorithm ...