Re: Automatically setting a PC's time

["Tim Fletcher" <timfletcher@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I used a PCI card to sync a PC clock with the international atomic clock in
Rugby for an application counting fish at the Cardiff Bay Barrage - it
wasn't entirely trouble free - you need an FM signal for the thing to hear
the beeps - difficult at the bottom of a 15M concrete tunnel!  It cost a
few hundred pounds as well : (

Off the top of my head and GPS and teletext might be worth considering.

HTH
Tim.


----- Original Message -----
From: rb_ziggy
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:38 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Automatically setting a PC's time


I'm sure there must be a good straightforward way but... How can you
syncronise a PC's time accurately & regularly with the rest of the
world(!)? I want to do this so I can regularly update Comfort and
keep various timestamps (e.g. CCTV) reliable.

I run W2K and looked at, and tried to decipher, the Windows time
service and nettime / setsntp commands but (despite Googling) don't
seem to be able to find a UK time server. Is this sensible / secure
route???

Need something, simple, troublefree and (goes without saying) at the
free end of cheap!  Apologies if it's blindingly obvious but it's
escaped me if it is.

Regards

Richard



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