Introduction
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Ntimed is a network time synchronization client for the Amiga. It is based on
the Ntimed free and open-source software by Poul-Henning Kamp, and sponsored
by the Linux Foundation.

It uses the NTP protocol to synchronize the local Amiga clock to a set of
network server. Public available NTP servers are reachable through the
Internet.

Ntimed for the Amiga conforms only with IPv4 networks. Your Amiga needs to be
connected to a network and to have an IPv4 address.


Reference
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Format
   NTIMED [PARAM <parameter>] [TRACEFILE <file>] [TIMEZONE <zone>] {servers}
          [SYNC] [SAVE] [QUIET]

Template
   P=PARAM/K,T=TRACEFILE/K,Z=TIMEZONE/K,SERVERS/M,SYNC/S,SAVE/S,QUIET/S

PARAM are used to show and set internal Ntimed parameters. A list of parameters
will be shown when using question mark. TRACEFILE can be specified to write a
full blow-by-blow trace file for analysis and debugging.

TIMEZONE is used to specify local time zone. If no value is given, time will
be synchronized to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). A list of parameters will
be shown when using question mark. {servers} is a list of NTP time servers.

SYNC will tell Ntimed to spent 5-10 seconds synchronizing and then exit. If
SAVE is specified, time will be save to the real-time clock (RTC) clock upon
exit.

NTIMED can be stopped with CTRL C.


Example 1
NTIMED ntp1.example.com ntp2.example.com

Example 2
NTIMED TRACEFILE=RAM:trace TIMEZONE=CEST ntp1.example.com

Example 3
NTIMED P "foo=20,poll_rate=25" T T:trace ntp7.example.com

Example 4
NTIMED Z EST ntp4.example.com SYNC

Example 5
NTIMED Z=?


Public available timeservers
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A list of public available timeservers from ntp.org:
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/StratumTwoTimeServers

Instructions of how to use NTP pool servers are at:
http://www.pool.ntp.org/


Further info
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The Ntimed main repository is located at Github:
https://github.com/bsdphk/Ntimed

Poul-Henning Kamp maintains a blog about this project here:
http://phk.freebsd.dk/time

The Amiga and AROS repository is located at:
https://github.com/llsth/Ntimed

Amiga and AROS versions are independent from the official Ntimed
FOSS project.