What is the NTP command?
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) synchronizes the time of day among a set of distributed time servers and clients in order to correlate events when receiving system logs and other time-specific events from multiple network devices. NTP uses the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) as its transport protocol.
What is NTP command in Linux?
Network Time Protocol is the most common method to synchronize the software clock of a GNU/Linux system with internet time servers. It is designed to mitigate the effects of variable network latency and can usually maintain time to within tens of milliseconds over the public Internet.