[Trlog] Windows time vs. WWV

George Fremin III geoiii at kkn.net
Wed Jul 12 13:17:11 EDT 2006


On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 04:00:16PM -0000, David Hachadorian wrote:
> 
> > News to me and I'm sure old info to others,  is the fact 
> > that the automatic
> > time update in windows XP,  is almost 2 min. fast relative 
> > to WWV.
> 
> I sure don't see that here. Using time.windows.com it always 
> turns out within one second of WWV, always on the slow side. 
> It only updates automatically once per week, so maybe your 
> clock drifted off in the meantime?

I guess XP has this built in.... on win98 I dont that 
you have that option.

I have found that these folks know something about what time it is:

http://www.nist.gov/

And they have free software here:

http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm


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