非root用户修改服务器时间同步,ntp服务器设置(时间同步协议)

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize a computer to Internet time servers or other sources, such as a radio or satellite receiver or telephone modem service. It can also be used as a server for dependent clients. It provides accuracies typically less than a millisecond on LANs and up to a few milliseconds on WANs. Typical NTP configurations utilize multiple redundant servers and diverse network paths in order to achieve high accuracy and reliability. Authentication is provided using symmetric key cryptography and the MD5 message digest algorithm included in the distribution. If the OpenSSL cryptographic library is installed, the SHA or SHA1 message digest algorithms can be used. If the OpenSSL library is installed, additional options based on public key cryptography are available.

NTP time synchronization services are widely available in the public Internet. The public NTP subnet in early 2008 includes several thousand servers in most countries and on every continent of the globe, including Antarctica. These servers support a total population estimated at over 25 million computers in the global Internet. The NTP subnet operates with a hierarchy of levels, where each level is assigned a number called the stratum. Stratum 1 (primary) servers at the lowest level are directly synchronized to national time services. Stratum 2 (secondary) servers at the next higher level are synchronize to stratum 1 servers and so on. Normally, NTP clients and servers with a relatively small number of clients do not synchronize to public primary servers. There are several hundred public secondary servers operating at higher strata and are the preferred choice.

Network Time Protocol(NTP)是用来使计算机时间同步化的一种协议，它可以使计算机对其服务器或时钟源(如石英钟，GPS等等)做同步化，它可以提供高精准度的时间校正(LAN上与标准间差小于1毫秒，WAN上几十毫秒)，且可介由加密确认的方式来防止恶毒的协议攻击。