#ntpd
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #ntpd from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 18:24 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-27 18:24 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 18:24 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 25 public posts (spanning ~57680 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 07:00
Languages: English (18) · German (3) · Spanish (1) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.7
Top of the latest posts
Secure time synchronization with NTS To set the correct time on computers, usually NTP (Network Time Protocol) is used. However NTP is an insecure time synchronization protocol and allows a man-in-the-middle to shift time on an NTP client.
ntpd_sync_on_start – missing from bsdconfig(8) in FreeBSD. A bug? bsdconfig startup_rcvar #FreeBSD #ntpd #date #time #bug
NTP in practice. Mostly it works. Time to time it's like 8 hours off. Internet connection is working. I already debugged unreliable NTP once and replaced the unreliable "ntp" NTP daemon with much more reliable "chrony" NTP daemon. But still
What “ntpd” means
WikipediaThe Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) is an operating system program that maintains the system time in synchronization with time servers using the Network Time Protocol (NTP).
“Ntpd” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#ntpd across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #ntpd straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/ntpd