Mac's requesting net time every 30 seconds

We are having an issue with every Mac trying to update it's time every 30 seconds (we can see the network traffic). Is there any way to set this to once a day, or turn it off completely?
Thanks.

Go to the Date & Time preference pane, and unclick "Set date & Time automatically" to disable the behavior.
Unless it's failing to see its time server and trying multiple sites, it should just be issuing normal NTP traffic.

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den.thed,
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it the GT704WG wireless modem/router. How do get the stats
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