Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.

4recommend
0warn against
Nov 12, 2025first mention
Oct 9, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used forpublic ntp time serversrunning time server on vps

Why people recommend it

“It’s such a simple thing to give back, and worth anyone who can make a stable contribution doing so.”

“IMHO, most applications should use pool.ntp.org”

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“or just use ntppool https://www.ntppool.org/en/”

“Rather than money one can donate NTP servers to the pool.”

Caveats and dissent

No one in these comments warned against it.

All comments 7

“NTP!!! https://dreamstation.systems/personal/ntppool.html”

“You must absolutely not use the default pool.ntp.org zone names as the default configuration in your application or appliance.”

“they ended up just using the default ntppool domains”

“It’s such a simple thing to give back, and worth anyone who can make a stable contribution doing so.”

“IMHO, most applications should use pool.ntp.org”

“or just use ntppool https://www.ntppool.org/en/”

“Rather than money one can donate NTP servers to the pool.”

Threads where it came up

Data: ntp-pool.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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