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You'd think that synchronizing the clocks across a fleet of modern servers is a solved problem, but it's actually quite a hard challenge to solve, especially if you want to get to nanosecond accuracy.

The IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol enables precise time synchronization over the packet-based Ethernet network so that the time on a slave clock at one end of the network agrees with a master clock ...

IEX Group Inc. subsidiary swXtch.io, a provider of cloud-native network infrastructure, said today it has completed its integration with Timebeat.app Ltd.’s Precision Time Protocol to enable extremely ...

A rare case of deliberately trying to induce an outage A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently warned that an atomic clock device installed at its Boulder campus had failed due to a prolonged power ...

Setting up a Unix system to be an NTP client is generally straightforward. On those Unix platforms that include NTP in the default configuration, you may only need to make a few adjustments to NTP’s ...

Clock synchronization has a direct impact on trade reconstruction, market abuse monitoring, surveillance and best execution by providing a link between prevailing market conditions and the time of ...