[Skimmertalk] time sync?

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

On Windows 10, it's harder to get to the dialog where you can change the
time server than it used to be.

One way:

   1. Windows Key + R (Run)
   2. Control [Enter] (opens Windows Control Panel)
   3. Type "Set the time" the Control Panel search box
   4. Click "Set the time and date"
   5. Click "Internet Time" tab
   6. Click "Change settings" button
   7. Set Server to:  us.pool.ntp.org
   8. Click *Update now* button

If you have no Internet access, you can use a "Hockey puck" GPS device to
accurately set the time IF you have a real hardware serial port on your PC
(does not work with USB-to-Serial adapters).  The simplest method, with
documentation:

http://www.dxatlas.com/ToyNtp/

(Also works without hockey puck).

73,
Bob, N6TV


On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 2:47 PM Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:

> Yes, use us.pool.ntp.org .  I stopped trying to use time.windows.com and
> time.nist.gov a long long time ago.
>
> More info here:   https://www.ntppool.org/en/
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 2:39 PM David Robbins <k1ttt.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> A couple questions about syncing time on pc’s… I had been setting windows
>> and my webcams to sync with time.nist.gov, but recently that has been
>> failing on several different machines… both on a webcam that I think runs
>> some kind of cut down linux, and on win7 and win10 boxes.
>> Time.windows.com seems to work on the ones that time.nist.gov fails on,
>> but I’m not sure how accurate it is.  I have 2 machines that run wsjt-x
>> when nothing else is happening and 2 machines that run cw skimmer server
>> and rtty skimmer server 24/7, plus the n1mm+ logging network that needs to
>> sync to something for multi-op contests, plus 2 webcams that time stamp
>> photos that I would like to be at least reasonably close.
>>
>>
>>
>> Questions…
>>
>> 1.       Does anyone know if there is a difference between
>> time.windows.com and time.nist.gov that would make some machines fail to
>> sync on one but work on the other??
>>
>> 2.       I have a server, win 2012r2 that syncs to time.windows.com,
>> would I be better off setting all the lan machines to sync off it rather
>> than doing their own sync over the internet??
>>
>> 3.       Is there a better source than time.windows.com or time.nist.gov
>> that works reliably with windoze??
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> David Robbins K1TTT
>> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net <k1ttt at arrl.net>
>> web: http://wiki.k1ttt.net
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>>
>>
>>
>>
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