{"id":741,"date":"2008-05-11T16:23:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T20:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/05\/11\/a-little-irony\/"},"modified":"2008-05-11T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T20:23:28","slug":"a-little-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/05\/11\/a-little-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Irony?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This falls into the category of things very few people would notice, but&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft provides time.windows.com, a public NTP server, operating in stratum 2.<\/p>\n<p>I just came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.david-taylor.myby.co.uk\/software\/net.htm#NTPmonitor\">NTPmonitor<\/a>, a novel Windows app to monitor a handful of NTP servers. (Sadly, it doesn&#8217;t offer the option to <em>sync<\/em> to any of them, probably because most peoples&#8217; computers let them configure it&#8230; Mine syncs to a domain controller which seems to want to give me the time, but not with too much accuracy.)<\/p>\n<p>As with most full-featured NTP clients, it shows you what the remote timeserver reports as its reference clock. I&#8217;ve got my server in there, ttwagner.com, showing that it&#8217;s currently synced to clock.xmission.com. The &#8220;pool&#8221; server is pool.ntp.org; whichever of the many machines I connected to is synced to rubidium.broad.mit.edu. On the right we have time.nist.gov, synced to &#8220;ACTS,&#8221; a NIST protocol.<\/p>\n<p>On the left is time.windows.com, the Microsoft NTP server. Its upstream timeserver?<\/p>\n<p>clock3.redhat.com.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot attached, since I wouldn&#8217;t believe it without one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_mmd_0\" class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/files\/2008\/05\/timewindowscom.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> title=&#8221;time.windows.com gets its time from clock3.redhat.com&#8221;><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/files\/2008\/05\/timewindowscom.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"time.windows.com gets its time from clock3.redhat.com\"><\/a><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This falls into the category of things very few people would notice, but&#8230;. Microsoft provides time.windows.com, a public NTP server, operating in stratum 2. I just came across NTPmonitor, a novel Windows app to monitor a handful of NTP servers. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/05\/11\/a-little-irony\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-cool-links","category-funny","category-ocd","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}