Ah ok, I guess I misunderstood this part: >Ten times each second the ESP8266 com...

		VladVladikoff 76 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into ... Ah ok, I guess I misunderstood this part: >Ten times each second the ESP8266 compares the time displayed on the analog clock to the actual time retrieved from an NTP server. Not sure where I got 30 from. Dyslexia between reading and commenting.

No worries. You would be right to be concerned about an NTP server being polled so regularly.