#ntpdate
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #ntpdate 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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-11 06:02 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-11 06:02 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #ntpdate.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-11 06:02 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 5 public posts (spanning ~50032 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (5)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
Remember ntpdate? If you run BSD it's there still https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ntpdate It was also standard in my Linux distribution of Mandrake / Mandriva & early Debian For reasons unknown I don't see it anymore. I just needed to i
saving this for later $ sudo service ntp stop $ sudo ntpdate -s time.nist.gov $ sudo service ntp start #linux #ntpdate
Local #FreeBSD (v14.3-RELEASE) "/etc/rc.conf" has ... ntpd_enable="YES" ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" ... which did not make "ntpd(8)" to run due to "clock offset exceeds panic threshold" with any of: cold boot; "exit" after "shutdown now"; "ser
What “ntpdate” means
WikipediaThe Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. In operation since before 1985, NTP is one of the oldest Internet protocols in current use. NTP was designed by David L. Mills of the University of Delaware.
“Network Time Protocol” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#ntpdate across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #ntpdate 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/ntpdate