base-system@gentoo.org Gentoo Base System NTP is a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network. NTP version 3 is an internet draft standard, formalized in RFC 1305. NTP version 4 is a significant revision of the NTP standard, and is the current development version, but has not been formalized in an RFC. Simple NTP (SNTP) version 4 is described in RFC 2030. Allow ntp to be installed alongside openntpd Add support for PARSE clocks Provide support for Samba's signing daemon (needed for Active Directory domain controllers) cpe:/a:ntp:ntp