Network Time Protocol daemon VS Hourglass

After digging through all the DNS queries originating from my "chatty" Narwal Freo, I'm wondering why they are so obsessed with network time? Besides talking to several subdomains off of narwaltech.com, the robot is making DNS queries once every minute with ntp5.aliyun.com. And that is in addition to a couple other NTP servers at ntp.org. This really doesn't feel like an efficient use of network / server /... Source: 11 months ago

The stratum level changes depending on who is reading the clock. If you look at your peer list for ntp.org you will see it change between stratum 1 and 2, depending on when your remote peer last read from the clock. When your DC reads from this list, it will update its stratum level as well, and all clients reading from it will update accordingly. Source: about 1 year ago

Ntp settings in default gpo, "Main" pdc emulator DC uses ntp.org and the other DCs sync to it and call it a day. Source: about 1 year ago

Also, I have NTP for all ESXi hosts and vCenter set to ntp.org pools. I don't use OPNsense as an NTP server, but that is set the same as well. Source: about 1 year ago

So I configured my new Firewalla Gold Plus to block DoH Servers, so that my internal devices can't go around my NextDNS CLI config. However, I was reviewing the Flows logs for the fun of it, and saw that outbound NTP requests to NTP servers were blocked. Both of these blocks are to ntp.org domains which to my knowledge would not be servicing ANY DNS requests of any type. So I'm baffled why these ntp.org servers... Source: over 1 year ago

Check out hourglass if you are on Windows. It’s a simple portable timer with no fluff. Source: over 1 year ago

I have not used or tried this app https://chris.dziemborowicz.com/apps/hourglass/. Source: almost 2 years ago

Https://chris.dziemborowicz.com/apps/hourglass/ put your alarm sounds in C:\Program Files (x86)\Hourglass or just the local folder if you use the portable version. Source: about 2 years ago

Put a slightly less than 2hr timer (e.g. I use this https://chris.dziemborowicz.com/apps/hourglass/ but any similar would do), if you are not sure then uninstall and ask for a refund. EZ PZ. Source: almost 3 years ago

Try https://tomighty.github.io/ or https://chris.dziemborowicz.com/apps/hourglass/ - when minimized to taskbar icon it shows time progress as a background colour. If you find something better let me know. I also looking for a regular clock in taskbar (hour & minutes only). Source: almost 3 years ago