David Evans

This article describes how easy it is to synchronise servers, workstations and network infrastructure to a precise time reference.

This article attempts to describe simply, how network time servers can obtain accurate timing information to provide a precise reference for computer time synchronisation. It also discusses how NTP servers can utilise the atomic time generated by GPS to provide a timing reference for computer networks

Computers are notorious for providing inaccurate time and can drift by several minutes each day. This has serious consequences for networked computer systems and applications. Each computer can have wildly differing system times, which can be totally unacceptable for transaction processing applications.

This article attempts to simplify the installation and configuration of the Linux NTP server application. It describes a simple NTP installation and goes through step-by-step the configuration procedure required to provide a NTP server on a Linux machine.

This article describes how the DCF-77 signal can be decoded to provide an accurate time reference for NTP servers and other computer timing applications.

This article describes the external time references that are available to synchronise NTP servers and discusses the merits of each.

It is quite simple to synchronise every device on your network to an accurate time reference - a NTP time server.

This article discusses ways in which you can maintain continuously accurate system time on your computer system. It looks at how Internet time references and NTP servers can be utilised for computer time synchronisation.

This article describes the components required to utilise GPS for computer timing applications. It also discusses how the GPS system can be used for computer network timing by using the Network Time Protocol (NTP) and NTP time servers.

This article briefly outlines the operation of NTP and some of the terminology associated with the protocol.