For some of us, the word “synchronize” brings up memories of the characters on Mission Impossible synchronizing their watches so that they can complete a seemingly impossible mission with split-second ...

Local clock inaccuracy is so miniscule as to not merit mention with respect to NTP. (around three orders of magnitude difference). Click to expand... For bare metal, yes. For virtual, no. Fire up ntpd ...

I have a few dumb devices (Gemtec IoT LoraWAN gateways) on one network that rely on NTP to function correctly. After they were installed, they worked for about 1 day then stopped relaying sensor info ...