[RTTY] RTTY Digest, Vol 63, Issue 30

Charles Morrison cfmorris at bellsouth.net
Sun Mar 23 13:08:59 EDT 2008


> From: "Peter Laws" <plaws0 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [RTTY] NTP
> 
> Poking at BARTG today between other things.  Already seen a number of
> stations with incorrect time.
> 
> Assuming something in the Microsoft "family", please look at
> http://www.meinberg.de/english/sw/ntp.htm  These guys have done a nice
> port of NTP to Windows.  It will even turn off the non-standards
> compliant Windows time client for you.  Look for the Monitor program
> as well.
> 
> Mac folks have a fully-functional NTP daemon, though by default if
> only points at Apple.  You're better off going into a terminal window,
> becoming root, adding a few more high-stratum time sources (look at
> http://ntp.org/ for a list), and restarting.
> 
> If you're on a different UNIX or GNU/Linux, likely you are already
> good to go as most distros come with NTP preconfigured to use the NTP
> pools.
> 
> BTW, the guy that wrote all the NTP RFCs and whose group has been
> developing the daemon for years is W3HCF, an engineering prof at the
> Univ of Delaware.
> 
> 

All Windows 2000 and better clients can be set for time sync without
installing any type of 3rd party application.  Open a dos prompt, type "net
time /setsntp:pool.ntp.org" and enter (adjust for your locale, ie: outside
of the US may be different).  Either restart W32time or reboot your
computer.  This automatically overrides the Windows time setting in the GUI
and will use the preferred round robin pool of 2nd level NTP servers.  

Settings for this and other OS's are available here:
http://www.pool.ntp.org/use.html

Works on 2000, XP, 2000 Server, 2003 Server, Vista and 2008 server.

Of course, it also requires an internet connection.

Charlie
KI5XP




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