Zend_TimeSync is able to receive internet or network time from a timeserver using the NTP or SNTP protocol. With Zend_TimeSync the Zend Framework is able to act indepentendly from the timesettings of the server where it is running.
To be independent from the actual time of the server, Zend_TimeSync does internally work just with the difference of the real time which is send through NTP or SNTP and the internal servers time.