- By default, timesyncd uses the Google NTP servers
- time[1-4].google.com. They serve time that is not standards
- compliant, and can be up to .5s off. Google does not
- officially support these servers for the broader
- audience. Distributions and vendors really should not ship
- OSes or devices with these NTP servers configured. Instead,
- please register your own vendor pool at ntp.org and make it
- the built-in default by passing --with-ntp-servers= to
- configure. Registering vendor pools is free:
+ By default, timesyncd uses the Google Public NTP servers
+ time[1-4].google.com. They serve time that uses a leap second
+ smear, and can be up to .5s off from servers that use stepped
+ leap seconds.