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Time synchronization - Linux Tutorial
From the course: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Essential Training
Time synchronization
- [Instructor] NTP, Network Time Protocol it's all about time synchronization. Let's look at the problem space. If you've got just your server, you've got one clock and everything uses that clock, so it's easy to timestamp things and know that they're all synchronized. If you've got another server and you need to interact with that and you need to synchronize things like transactions and logs you need to make sure that the clocks on different hardware are synchronized. It gets even more complicated when you've got even more servers and in today's world, we aren't isolated. We have web services and other services that are on other computers outside of our enterprise and we need to synchronize with them as well. So there's been a standardization on time clocks. The U.S. runs its own clock which is set as its standard and then nations coordinated to have an international standard and on the internet these servers connect to each other so they can all be synchronized in terms of time…
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