Public Time provides unrestricted access to no-cost, highly-accurate time sources for the public good.
Servers
Public Time Experience
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Global NTP Server Monitoring
Public Time has consistently grown its global deployment footprint since the day the company formed. While that’s excellent news for us, it comes with a number of unforeseen issues as a matter of scale. With 30+ servers across the globe, it’s not enough to just make sure the server and operating system are both up…
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The “Why” Question, the Network Time Community, and You!
While Network Time Protocol (NTP) has been in development for 34 years, time refinement has been a global cause for nearly a century. Since NTP and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) matured and computer connections have enabled global public access to these systems, it has become clearer by the decade how important it is to keep track of time.…
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Public Time’s Fleet Servers and Maintenance
In the second half of 2017, a few months after Public Time officially became a company, we had anywhere from five to ten servers providing time. We found that our servers needed occasional maintenance but were reliable enough that we could “safely” ignore them most of the time. Our service, supported by many other surrounding…