Help save the endangered time servers
Someone stops you on the street and asks "Hey, do you know what time it is?" You tell him and continue on your way. But what if it was hundreds of thousands of people every day, because they didn't know who else to ask? You might decide to not answer any more. That's the situation that some important Internet time servers are in, and some simple changes in your computer's configuration can help ease the strain.
NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is a standard for net-connected computers to find out the correct time from other computers. Your computer's clock can easily lose accuracy over time for many different reasons, and setting it to regularly check a server via NTP will keep its clock always in sync with the correct time.
You can help relieve the load on the strained servers by switching your computer's settings to use pool.ntp.org. Your system will start using one of the pool servers.
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