[RTTY] correct time

[Peter Laws]

I posted this here years ago.  All still true.  The URL still works, even.

> 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.



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