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David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 8/16/2009 9:55 AM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

Hope I'm not belaboring the point here. I just ran "net time" again and
got the error message "Could not locate a time-server". So I assume that
even if that process is running on my computer, as someone else here
asserted, it's not doing anything to my RTC, as there are no
time-servers to query (that it knows about).

http://download.cnet.com/Atomic-Cloc...2_4-14844.html

Thanks, but I'm happy with the little utility I already use that
contacts NIST (Nat'l Institute of Standards and Technology); see
http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm for more info.

You should stay away from NIST (and all other stratum one servers) to
avoid overloading their server unless you have a real need for high
precision -- REALLY high. Otherwise, find a good stratum two server to
connect to; you'll never know the difference. There are a lot; just
google. I use time.apple.com.

Isaac