Daily clock drift of several minutes
Looks like some special characters got inserted at the end (especially the 0x2e part which represents a simple .) and OS X now interpretes this as part of the server name. To fix, just run

sudo echo server time.apple.com &gt; /etc/ntp.conf
sudo chown root:wheel /etc/ntp.conf


from the Terminal.

As to why you have this issue I have no clue.