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Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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299 points gastonmorixe | 6 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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bheadmaster ◴[12 Nov 25 10:53 UTC] No.45898648[source]▶
It's sad that a project that literally every company in the world depends on is requiring donations to keep working.
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jeffbee ◴[12 Nov 25 13:39 UTC] No.45900013[source]▶
It is apparently "Grossly Overestimate The Reliance of Companies on Open Software and Systems Week" and nobody told me.
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1. bheadmaster ◴[12 Nov 25 14:05 UTC] No.45900324[source]▶
Name one company that doesn't depend on NTP.
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2. jeffbee ◴[12 Nov 25 14:11 UTC] No.45900420[source]▶
Perhaps it is just my career experience, but I have never worked at a company that 1) cared about the time and 2) did not have its own clocks and 3) would touch ntpd with a 10-foot pole.
3. Aurornis ◴[12 Nov 25 14:19 UTC] No.45900514[source]▶
This donation is for the NTP Foundation for something specific like their website.

The big companies who use NTP have their own pools and either use versions of different ntp implantations or their own internal ones.

All of these comments assuming cloud providers are using the reference NTP implementation and the public pools have no idea what they’re talking about.

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4. bheadmaster ◴[12 Nov 25 16:53 UTC] No.45902458[source]▶
> The big companies who use NTP have their own pools

And which NTP servers are those pools synchronized to?

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5. philipwhiuk ◴[12 Nov 25 17:33 UTC] No.45903021{3}[source]▶
This organisation doesn't run the NTP pool.
6. jeffbee ◴[12 Nov 25 17:37 UTC] No.45903078{3}[source]▶
They have their own Stratum 0 source clocks.