I'm curios to know if any of you are using or have used NIST Internet Time Service (ITS) The NIST Internet Time Service (ITS) allows users to synchronize computer clocks via the Internet. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. TIA i_XpUser

I use this freeware: Chronograph Atomic Time Clock Lite 4.0

I second that

time.nist.gov, the alternate listed in the Date and Time Properties? I've used it once or twice when the ms one was not working - don't recall any problems with it.

Just used it to see and it worked. Usually I just leave it to auto update once a week. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life.

But I see what you are talking about, Not just using the single server by way of the inbuilt XP time synchronisation, which is what I did, but setting up the multi-server NIST software that looks like it is designed tp poll a number of timeservers and average the responses for a more exact result. Cannot say I'd bother as my home system isn't doing anything that critical that would need accuracy to the nanosecond. I'll just live with a once a week update to a single server. But now that you've brought it to my attention I'll just have to deal with the mental anguish of knowing my clock just might be out by a hair. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life.

Was curious anyway as I have a printserver running Win2K and it doesn't automaticallu correct the clock. I tried to run the nist program but could not get it to connect to the timeserver through my proxy. So I don't know whether it will automatically adjust the machineclock after a query or whether that is a manual thing. The helpfile indicates anyway that most PC clocks are accurate to a 1 sec increment only so time will still be subject to +- .5 sec. For anyone with XP it seems redundant to employ a second time synchro program. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life.