When your system receives images from cameras, these images are instantly time-stamped. Since hardware devices are separate units which may have separate timing devices, the hardware device time and your system time may not be fully synchronized. The result is that your system may stop recording from the hardware devices all together if there is a discrepancy between hardware device time and your system time.
To prevent this from happening, use a time server to auto-synchronize camera and system time. This allows you to have consistent time-synchronization. Not all cameras support timestamps, so make sure your camera supports this before you begin to use a time server.
You can use the recording server as a time server if you want to.
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