RE: Automatically setting a PC's time

["John B" <home-automation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It's a fairly standard thing in most Unixes (NFS is highly dependant
on
> accurate time for encrypted connections to work properly).  I'd be
very
> surprised if there wasn't a nice simple NTP client for Windows, but I
> suspect that, like very nearly everything else, it would be nagware at
> best, bloody expensive at worst.

Windows 2000 and above all include an NTP client, called the Windows Time
service (w32time).

> As far as time servers go, I tend to use ntp1.ja.net as my NTP server.

In which case, using your above NTP server as an example, you'd go to a
command prompt and type:

net time /setsntp:ntp1.ja.net

The Windows Time service can also act as an NTP time server, so you can
have all your client PCs sync up to the time server, then have the time
server sync to an external NTP source like ntp1.ja.net.

Never had any issues with the time service - just set and forget.

Also, if you are on Blueyonder broadband (same may be true for NTL) your
UBR (first hop in a traceroute) acts as an NTP server.

HTH,

John