zConnect today announced that it has joined the pool.ntp.org project, and is making a time server available to help provide Internet Time Services for millions of clients without putting a strain on the big popular timeservers.

The pool.ntp.org project was created by Adrian von Bidder after a discussion about resource consumption on the big timeservers, with the idea that for everyday use a DNS round robin would be good enough, and would allow spreading the load over many servers.

Users can synchronize their computers clock with the network time servers to ensure accuracy. For most users of recent Windows versions, it's a simple as issuing the following command at a command prompt:

   net time /setsntp:pool.ntp.org

"These types of projects are good for everybody," said Eric Longman, zConnect's President. "We feel that it's our responsibility to provide resources when we can that make the Internet more diverse and more stable."

zConnect's time server has been online for several years, and was added to the pool.ntp.org project in late August. For more information on the pool.ntp.org project, see http://www.pool.ntp.org. Or, you can learn more about using the pool.