[Trlog] Windows time vs. WWV

[ke5c]

there are lots of articles in the microsoft knowledge base about problems 
with the windows time service.  i recently did a clean reinstall of xp on 
two machines followed by sp2, and in both cases, the time service is not 
enabled to check any internet time servers.  since i am using the program i 
posted (the one by k5tr is probably better), i never noticed this until 
looking.

73, john

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Fremin III" <geoiii at kkn.net>
To: "TR Log Reflector" <trlog at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Trlog] Windows time vs. WWV


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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George Fremin III - K5TR
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