It’s about time we show NTP some love. This handy protocol has been around for quite a long while and is essential for synchronizing clocks across your network.
It’s 2016 (almost 2017); why is the time off on your system clocks? It became apparent to me that there are some folks out there that do not realize their clocks are off for a reason. My Twitter buddy Julia Evans recently made a graphic about distributed systems that mentioned clock issues and it made me really sad…
If you are not familiar with how to solve this distributed systems problem, allow me to introduce you to Network Time Protocol (NTP).
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