grarpamp wrote: >> EVERYONE should be running NTP, of course, not the relatively few that do. >> If you happen to still be on a windows machine, here is a FREE utility > > And if you prefer the open source NTP standard that everyone else uses... > > http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/ExternalTimeRelatedLinks > > And I'm quite certain that XP and newer have adequate native knobs, > though likely only in ntpdate via cron fashion.
As far as I know (from memory -- no links), by default, Windows XP will automatically contact a Microsoft time server (I don't know what protocol) once a week. The URL and update period can be adjusted. XP *might* also contact the time server immediately after boot-up. I have also seen, for reasons unknown, the time on a public computer running XP drift further and further from the correct time. One time I tried to look up under what circumstances the automatic time setting on XP would ignore the time server. Microsoft described what XP *might* do rather than what it *would* do. (sigh) HTH Jim _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
