Dennis Lee Bieber schreef: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:44:49 -0600, Paul Probert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> This is now our leading suspect. All the affected machines have >> "abouttime.exe" running as a service, something our sysadmin put in a >> few years ago. We are currently disabling this and now waiting for the >> proof. > > Hmmm, I wonder how compatible that is with WinXP -- since XP already > has an internet time synch built into the date/time preferences page > (need admin privs to view).
It's easily disabled. I disable it and use NTP for Windows instead on machines I control since it works much better. > Pre-XP may not have had such... Windows 2000 had it too, but there was no GUI to configure it; you had to manually edit the registry. -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
