Synchronise the clock from a Network Time Protocol server. Requires Ethernet or Wi-Fi (see ETHERNET / OPTION WIFI) and runs best-effort: when the network is down the clock is left unchanged and an error is reported.
NTP OPTION NTP AUTO|ON|OFF OPTION NTP SERVER “host[:port]” OPTION TIMEZONE “name”
The NTP command performs a one-shot sync from OPTION NTP SERVER (default pool.ntp.org, port 123) and prints the resulting local time.
At boot NTP is on by default (OPTION NTP AUTO): once Ethernet or Wi-Fi comes up, the clock is synced best-effort without an explicit enable step. An offline machine stays quiet and retries when connectivity appears. Use OPTION NTP OFF to disable this; OPTION NTP ON forces it on and OPTION NTP AUTO restores the default. The setting is saved across reboots.
OPTION TIMEZONE selects the zone used by DATE$, TIME$ and DATETIME$; EPOCH and the stored clock stay UTC. Timezone names come from a built-in fixed-offset table without daylight saving, for example UTC (the default), Europe/Amsterdam or Pacific/Auckland; a numeric offset such as UTC+2 or UTC-5:30 also works.
There is no battery-backed RTC in the base machine, so the clock restarts at boot and NTP re-syncs it. File timestamps follow the synced local clock.
Example:
OPTION NTP SERVER "pool.ntp.org"
OPTION TIMEZONE "Europe/Amsterdam"
OPTION NTP ON
NTP
PRINT TIME$See also TIMEZONE, DATETIME$, EPOCH.
Source: docs/help/ntp.txt inmmcore. On the computer, typeHELP NTP.