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What is a timeserver?

What is a timeserver? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) Someone who honours their commitments only when it is personally easy to do so. [16th c.]
  2. A person who conforms to current opinions, especially for reasons of personal advantage; an opportunist. [from 16th c.]
  3. Someone who performs a job for the required time only, making a minimum of effort. [from 19th c.]
  4. (computing) A device, node or program that transmits the correct time to clients in a network.
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Whether you consider him a great professional and club servant or a timeserver with no personal pride would depend on your philosophy of life.
And when an expiry date is set, it cannot be foiled in the usual manner by turning back a computer's clock, because it can use an online timeserver.
Note: if you set the date manually, the phone does not synchronize the date with a timeserver until the next time it is restarted.
This command allows setting the NTP timeserver for computername.
It appeared to be an everyday tale of a political timeserver.
I knew none other there, save the fox face of Tarbet, called the timeserver.

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