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by shaicoleman 1858 days ago
The Linux/Windows timezone issue can be fixed with a registry setting [1]

If for some reason your time is off (e.g. after 3 failed attempts), it's easily detectable and fixable. Just browse to time.is [2], and your time is off, and set it manually if needed.

Because there's an increased dependency on accurate time, bad network time is now quite a rare occurrence in my experience. I haven't seen it happen in the last 3 years.

Once you point NTP to a trustworthy service (e.g. time.google.com [3] or time.cloudflare.com [4]), you won't have any issues.

The Google time server offers leap smear [5], and the Cloudflare one offers NTS (authenticated NTP).

1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_time#UTC_in_Microsof...

2. https://time.is/

3. https://developers.google.com/time

4. https://developers.cloudflare.com/time-services/nts/usage

5. https://developers.google.com/time/smear