MSF NTP Server

timeserver — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:43:33 +0000

MSF NTP Server
Network Time Protocol, or NTP, servers synchronize the time among workstations in various locations thus allowing for accurate time reporting of transactions. MSF NTP servers do this by synchronizing with the Atomic Clock in Rugby, UK or the one in Colorado, USA.

The time is reported every fifteen minutes by off air radio transmission and relayed by the GPS satellite system. Every clock in the world is set according to the atomic clock and an MSF NTP server sets the time with each transmission. The antenna of the MSF NTP server is located away from the computer itself to protect the server from radio interference.

MSF is the call sign for the original transmitter in Rugby that transmitted MSF MSF MSF every fifteen minutes in Morse code followed by the time, though sometimes referred to as ‘Master Standard Frequency’ it is not intended as an acronym according to National Physical Laboratory.