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Ntimed
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bsdphk / Ntimed · Archived

Ntimed

Network time synchronization software, NTPD replacement.

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What it is

Network time synchronization software, NTPD replacement.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-12-22 00:25:37 UTC to 2016-06-05 03:20:09 UTC.

01232014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsDec 20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20152015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 2016

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Dec 20142014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Jan 20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Feb 20152015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20152015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20152015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20152015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20152015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20152015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20152015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20152015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20152015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Nov 20152015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20152015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20162016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20162016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20162016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20162016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20162016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

10 sources
hga·Oct 25, 2015
While he said as of August 23rd that he's agin working on ntimed, that's not reflected in GitHub updates: https://github.com/bsdphk/Ntimed And it bears mentioning that ESR has been working on GPSD for more than a decade (a daemon to extract accurate time from GPS receivers), and he sure sounds math literate to my not entirely untutored ears in various discussions over the years. Given the well known curse of total rewrites, which I've experienced myself, I too know who I'd bet my money on.
In NTPsec is not quite a full rewrite
kapsel·Mar 12, 2015
Its also worth checking out Poul Henning-Kamps (FreeBSD comitter) work on Ntimed, check out: https://github.com/bsdphk/Ntimed The overall architectural goals are the same as every other FOSS project claims to follow: Simplicity, Quality, Security etc. etc. but I tend to think that we stick a little bit more closely to them. This work is sponsored by Linux Foundation, partly in response to the HeartBleed fiasco, and after studying the 300,000+ lines of source-code in NTPD. I concluded that while it could be salvaged, it would be more economical, much faster and far more efficient to start from scratch. Ntimed is the result.
In NTP's Fate Hinges on 'Father Time'
feld·Jan 4, 2015
autoconf is insane. Just write your own configure script... Keeping it simple does not need to cause abominations like autoconf. I was glad to see the new ntimed project is not using it. Here's a comment from the custom configure script: # Handwritten configure script. # ============================= # # Before you suggest I use tools for this, please read: # # https://www.varnishcache.org/docs/trunk/phk/autocrap.html # and # http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257 # from https://github.com/bsdphk/Ntimed/blob/master/configure
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