Re: Windows XP Pro time sync?

Joseph Marton wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 19:23:04 +0000, Doug Black wrote:
> 
> 
>>Windows XP has Internet time sync built in, but I think it will only
run
>>once a week.  I guess it might be possible to force more frequent
updates
>>via a registry hack, though I haven't looked.
> 
> 
> You can.  I've done it before at home.  I think I had it pulling time
> every 24 hours.
> 
Why would you do it more frequently than once a week?  Was your machine 
time that far off?

Brad Averbeck <red_zephrin@yahoo.com> wrote in news:K7OWj.12725$Dh4.12006
@kovat.provo.novell.com:

> Why would you do it more frequently than once a week?  Was your machine 
> time that far off?

Maybe he likes his logs to match up?  ( to the second...)


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Brad Averbeck wrote:
> Joseph Marton wrote:
> > You can.  I've done it before at home.  I think I had it pulling
> > time every 24 hours.
> 
> Why would you do it more frequently than once a week?  Was your
> machine time that far off?

One of the boss's hobby programming projects requires a reasonably
accurate time for some calculations or other -- after some problems, he
whipped up a quick NTP client internal to his program, and found that
some of his users' PCs were drifting by 5 to 10 minutes a day...

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Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett

Brad Averbeck wrote:

> Why would you do it more frequently than once a week?  Was your machine 
> time that far off?

Yeah I had some problem where the time kept getting off by several 
minutes.  I wasn't sure why it was happening so that was my hack.

-- 
Joe
"Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us