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Doesn't Microsoft have their own NTP implementations for use in the Windows world? IIRC, it's called Windows Time Service and it's included with Active Director
by curun1r 10y ago
Doesn't Microsoft have their own NTP implementations for use in the Windows world? IIRC, it's called Windows Time Service and it's included with Active Directory.
At a previous job, we pointed our in-office linux dev systems at our Windows domain controller and never had any issues with time synchronization. Since this was back in this embrace-and-extend days, I was pleasantly surprised by how interoperable MS was when it came to NTP.
- xenophonf 10y agoI support scientific computing, so depending on the application I will replace w32time with ntpd, which offers better accuracy and built-in support for reference clocks. That said, I didn't realize that the w32time service got a _lot_ better in Windows Server 2016: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/identity/ad-ds/get-started/windows-time-service/windows-2016-accurate-time https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/iden... It looks like Microsoft added support for NTPv4, and w32time now boasts 1-ms accuracy, which is at least a factor of 10 better than the previous Windows Server release.