Mellanox MLNX-OS User Manual for SX1018HP Ethernet Managed Blade Switch

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4.2 NTP, Clock & Time Zones
Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between com-
puter systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. NTP
is intended to synchro-
nize all participating computers to within a few m
illiseconds of Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC) and is designed to mitigate the effects of variable network latency. NTP can usually main-
tain time to within tens of milliseconds over the public Int
ernet, and can achieve better than one
millisecond accuracy in local area networks under ideal conditions.