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NTS, the NTP replacement are missing on article[edit]

NTS is like NTP and advanced by a TLS serure layer.
Have the RFC 8915, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8915
Are supported by https://www.cloudflare.com/time/

Note: This text above was added by an IP address user coming in from 92.208.243.129 at 10:44, 26 March 2021

I agree that NTS needs to be added in here. More information and sources can be found at links off of https://www.networktimesecurity.org/resources/ and https://www.networktimesecurity.org/news/ - Dyork (talk) 01:02, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

+1 - Reference 78 points to the IETF draft, but the draft was approved as RFC 8915 nearly a year ago.

Network Time Security redirects to this article. NTS and its RFC is mentioned in the lead and also in Network_Time_Protocol#Security_concerns. ~Kvng (talk) 16:33, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Challenge to "chrony designed for VM" claim[edit]

As I write this, the article has the sentence "It is also designed for virtual machines, a more unstable environment." under the chrony section. The main chrony article in the Wikipedia does not contain "virtual" or "VM" so it doesn't support this claim. The reference attached to that sentence (Both, David. "Manage NTP with Chrony". Opensource.com. Archived from the original on 29 June 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190629174030/https://opensource.com/article/18/12/manage-ntp-chrony) does not make any such claim.

I suggest that the sentence (and reference) be removed. MabryTyson (talk) 21:14, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"a networking protocol for clock synchronization"[edit]

That's a common, but incomplete and sometimes confusing description. For example, later on we see: "[W32time] The version in Windows 2000 and Windows XP only implements SNTP".

But SNTP is the same networking protocol as NTP, and Win32time on XP and 2000 "has the ability to synchronize the computer clock to an NTP server"

The problems of course are that (1) the XP time server lacks "NTP's data analysis and clock disciplining algorithms", which is time server clock synchronization protocol, and (2) the word "synchronization" has been used in two different senses: NTP disciplined synchronization, and SNTP occasional synchronization.121.200.27.15 (talk) 04:52, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This seems rather tautologous to me. NTP is the protocol; SNTP is a primitive subset of NTP; SNTP was eventually absorbed into NTP; therefore, NTP indeed remains 'a (the) networking protocol for clock synchronization'. The SNTP subsection of the article explains this. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 05:26, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]