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by jeffbee 214 days ago
It is apparently "Grossly Overestimate The Reliance of Companies on Open Software and Systems Week" and nobody told me.
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Name one company that doesn't depend on NTP.
This donation is for the NTP Foundation for something specific like their website.

The big companies who use NTP have their own pools and either use versions of different ntp implantations or their own internal ones.

All of these comments assuming cloud providers are using the reference NTP implementation and the public pools have no idea what they’re talking about.

> The big companies who use NTP have their own pools

And which NTP servers are those pools synchronized to?

They have their own Stratum 0 source clocks.
This organisation doesn't run the NTP pool.
Perhaps it is just my career experience, but I have never worked at a company that 1) cared about the time and 2) did not have its own clocks and 3) would touch ntpd with a 10-foot pole.