[VladVladikoff]

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.

[bArray]

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