RE: Automatically setting a PC's time

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you have broadband (or some sort of always on connection) then you
could use something like:

http://www.timetools.co.uk/ntp-time%20server-client-ntc-000.htm

Or any of the similar Network Time Client tools. (That one you have to
pay for but there are plenty of free ones.)

A google search will bring up lists of time servers too...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Fletcher [mailto:timfletcher@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 17 February 2004 13:00
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Automatically setting a PC's time
>
>
> 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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