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The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. NTP is designed to synchronize the clocks on computers and networks across the Internet or Local Area Networks (LANs).  NTP analyses the timestamp values including the frequency of errors and the stability. A NTP server will maintain an estimate of the quality of its reference clocks and of itself. Network Time Protocol - NTP How to Synchronize NTP with time? NTP server usually receives its time from a trustworthy time source, such as a radio clock attached to a time server, and then distributes this time across the network. NTP is extremely efficient and there is no more than one packet per minute is necessary to synchronize two machines to within a millisecond of each other The NTP client initiates a time-request exchange with the NTP server. As a result of this exchange, the client is able to calculate the link d...