OpenBSD NTP daemon NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is used to keep the computers clock synchronize. It provides the ability to sync the local clock to remote NTP servers and can act as NTP server itself, redistributing the local clock. This is an alternative implementation of the NTP software made by the OpenBSD project. It makes use of privilege separation. It only implements a subset of the NTP protocol and does not adjust the rate of the clock. Alternatives packages are ntp and chrony.