http://bookmarklayers.club/story.php?title=pre-settlement-inspection-checklist-our-complete-guide Simply requesting the current time from an NTP server without taking latency into account would lead to an imprecise response. 1. The NTP client sends a request via a UDP packet to an NTP server. Our goal is now to calculate an estimate for the network latency and processing delay and use that information to calculate, in the most accurate way possible, the offset between the NTP client clock and the NTP server clock. NTP server processing delay. Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:54:38 UTC en