Microsoft NTP in a virtualised world Let me start this off by saying that I love NTP. The whole way the protocol has been designed is truly elegant and it is such an important protocol that is often neglected
Technical Common questions - Why doesn't NTP set the time? Because that's not how NTP works. NTP will take the machines current time and compare it against a reference server (or servers) and then work out how much of an offset to apply.
Technical NTP & Time Zones With the upcoming time zone changes, it's worth remembering how NTP works and why it doesn't matter what timezone you have devices in. NTP and UTC both work in the same way, time