[time-nuts] Win XP and NIST time

David davidwhess at gmail.com
Tue Mar 26 02:16:18 EDT 2013


On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:05:26 +0100, "Anthony G. Atkielski"
<anthony at atkielski.com> wrote:

>Dan (I think) writes:
>
>> Because, up until today, windows time did what I needed it to do. It may
>> still, if the fault turns out to be network related.
>>
>> In reality, it's more software to learn to administer, and setup and run
>> on bunch of PC's. As a time nut, I know exactly how much time I need for
>> all of my other hobbies, since there's never enough of it...  :)
>
>I've been using the standard NTP client in Windows XP for ages, and it
>works just fine. I tried third-party stuff. It was just more work for
>no apparent gain. The XP desktop is synchronized with my NTP server
>perfectly within the limits of my perception, so there is no reason to
>go further. Microsecond accuracy is not necessary because I have no
>way of testing accuracy with that resolution, nor do I have any
>application that requires it. I'm mainly concerned with long-term
>accuracy, not short-term accuracy, so it's more important to be
>correct within 1/100 second over a period of years than to be correct
>within 1 microsecond over a day.

I have had trouble with the built in XP NTP client where it fails
silently so I usually install Tardis which keeps an easy to read log
which includes performance data.


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