NTP which is short for the Network Time Protocol is a protocol that is used to synchronize all the date and time of system clocks in a network to use the same time. The term NTP stands for the protocol itself and also the client and server programs running on the networked computers. NTP belongs to the traditional TCP/IP protocol suite and can easily be classified as one of its oldest parts.
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