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 NTP
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What is NTP?
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NTP is a protocol to synchronizing the clocks on host using publicly
available NTP servers.

How use?
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To use you must know NTP servers. Here list some of them::

  0.debian.pool.ntp.org 1.debian.pool.ntp.org
  2.debian.pool.ntp.org
  uk.pool.ntp.org       ua.pool.ntp.org

Some servers are national. They can be found as ISO 639 code with .pool.ntp.org
suffix.

Under Debian
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Install ``ntpdate`` package::

  $ sudo apt-get install ntpdate

and sync date with some NTP server::

  # sudo ntpdate 0.debian.pool.ntp.org

Under Windows
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See:

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q216734/
    Windows Time Service Tools and Settings.
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q223184/
    How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows 2000.
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307897/
    How to synchronize the time with the Windows Time service in Windows XP.
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216734/
    How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows 2000.