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Everyone who read this has now given more thought to this issue than Safari's developers seem to have.

Typical for apple I have spent days trying to sort out the NTP fiasco that apple introduced in mavericks.

Networked macs lose connection to the OSx Server as clocks drift apart and kerberos authentication fails

Why is NTP so hard for a proprietary OS? I have never had a problem on Linux, while on Windows I can't remember seeing NTP ever actually work.

Windows implements SNTP. The goal is to keep the clock within tolerance for Kerberos (5 minutes). It's embarrassingly bad but they don't seem to have any real reason to fix it. Also the w32tm code is ... bad.

At least NTP works on windows I have been trying to migrate a small 15 mac office to use networked users - because of the changes apple made to NTP all the networked macs lose sync after a couple of hours and crash quite often screwing up the outlook database.

It's certainly soured me on apple period I am recommending getting some nice dell i7 hexcore work stations.

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