Advancing and Evolving Network Time

Network Time Foundation and its Consortium significantly improve Network Time, NTP and PTP. Improvements to Network Time, NTP and PTP will make your life easier because they will:
  • Streamline national and international regulatory compliance (US: HIPAA, SOX; EU: EuroSOX, SEPA/MIFID)
  • Increase the accuracy of financial and other transactional records
  • Enable more effective cooperation with criminal investigations
  • Improve the customer service experience for customers and staff alike
  • Reduce technical support hassles
Network Time Foundation and its Consortium are dedicated to the advancement and evolution of the dissemination of accurate time over networks, using technologies including the Network Time Protocol (NTP), the Precision Time Protocol (PTP), and related network-time technologies. NTF serves the networking community and the organizations, businesses, and individuals who benefit from — and need — Network Time through:
  • Support of the development process
  • Evolution and promotion of accurate network time synchronization through various Standards organizations, including IEEE, IETF, ITU, and POSIX
  • Implementation of Best Current Practices for using NTP in embedded systems
  • Facilitating user participation in the community, and spearheading the advancement and evolution of Network Time
  • Recognition of your support of Network Time initiatives

NTF and its Network Time Consortium

To support NTF and its efforts with Network Time, organizations can make donations. All funds raised go directly toward the development process, standardization and implementation of best practices related to Network Time. NTF is registered as a California Public Benefit Corporation and is working to become a 501(c)3 organization, at which time donations may be tax deductible.

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For Added Benefits, Join NTF's Network Time Consortium

If you or your organization want to improve network time and receive additional benefits from NTF, join its Network Time Consortium. Memberships for individuals and organizations are available.

Benefits include:

  • Compliance Logo Program
  • Feature Priority Planning
  • Advanced Security Notifications
  • Priority Bug Fixes
  • Discounted Development and Technical Support
  • Seat on Executive Advisory Board
  • Voting Privileges
  • NTF branded items

    • Help us help your organization - Join!
We are here to fix and prevent your Network Time headaches. If you have headaches and do not see the “cure” on our member benefits page, tell us and we’ll address it.
 

Time and medical care…

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

I was visiting a friend in the hospital a few months ago.  She had a medicated IV drip line (an infusion pump) that allowed precise tuning of how much “stuff” was administered.  If it knew that it was dosing at, say, 50ml/hour and it had a 500ml bag then it would need to be changed out in 10 hours’ time and would alert accordingly.  It would also alert if it detected that something was wrong with the flow rate. Continue reading »

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GSoC Project Ideas

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Google has again selected mentoring organizations for their 2012 Google Summer of Code™ and NTF is very pleased to be participating, and has two Network Time related efforts this year: NTP and PTPd.

http://support.ntp.org/Dev/GSoCProjectIdeas NTP’s GSoC Project Ideas

http://wiki.ptp1588.org/Main/GSoCProjectIdeas PTPd’s GSoC Project Ideas

Visit NTF’s page at GSoC 2012.

We’d like to participate in 2013 as well. So if you are a student who might be interested, please find a project and talk to us – we’re happy to work with you to help you with a proposal for next year!

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New clock is 100x more accurate…

Posted on March 10, 2012 by

A new clock is coming to town, and it’s 100 times more stable than the best atomic clocks we have right now – it should keep time to within 1/20th of a second for 14 billion years, the age of the Universe. Continue reading »

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How long is a day?

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

I suspect very few people think about how long a day is, and of that number, fewer still wonder if the length of a day changes much, or what sort of things affect the length of the day. Continue reading »

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Executives as Community Managers

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

I saw a facebook update by Peter Thoeny, where he posted a link to an article about how executives can lead more effectively by being community managers.  I read it and liked it, so I thought I’d share it as well.

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Precise clocks…

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

I was looking for articles about really accurate clocks (OK, I’m using ‘accurate’ colloquially[nbnote ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision[/nbnote]) and came across this one from late 2007, about “How Super-Precise Atomic Clocks Will Change the World in a Decade” and I was just intrigued by some of the things I saw in there. Continue reading »

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When did that Facebook update happen?

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

Raymond Veloz had exited his vehicle after getting into a minor accident with another motorist around 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. He was standing near the other driver’s vehicle exchanging information when he was struck by Araceli Beas, as reported by CBS News.

Raymond Veloz’s daughter filed a wrongful death suit claiming that Araceli Beas’ Facebook page showed an update posted at 7:54 a.m. on Dec. 7, the same time that Veloz’s cell phone records showed a call being made to 911.

Beas’ mother came to her daughter’s defense claiming that she posted the Facebook update as she sat in her car while waiting for it to warm up outside her boyfriend’s home two miles away from where the crash occurred, reports The Chicago Tribune.

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