Service

Time Dissemination Service via NTP

METAS is responsible for the dissemination of the official time in Switzerland and is offering a free NTP (Network Time Protocol ) dissemination service, which allows synchronizing computer clocks over the network.

METAS NTP time service

METAS operates three public stratum 1 NTP servers in open access policy, namely:

• ntp11.metas.ch
• ntp12.metas.ch
• ntp13.metas.ch

The alias ntp.metas.ch points to one of the above servers.

More information

The technical documentation and the software related to the NTP protocol can be found on the official website.

• Network Time Protocol