Anyone know any free software to make the clock accurate.

I adjusted mine to the speaking clock at lunchtime and its already 18 minutes fast!!!

 

Net Time

http://nettime.sourceforge.net

 

Thanks mate

 

probably your bios clock, not xp but yeah, we use atomtime

http://www.atomtime.com/

 

Er - you have the function in XP itself.... (although it reads a clock in M$ HQ rather than Rugby or similar)


And you might want to investigate why BIOS can't keep time properly.


M

 

You can change the ntp clock used by XP away from a Microsoft one.

Right-click, the clock in the sys tray and select Adjust date/time. You should have a tab marked Internet. You can specifiy your own ntp server in there (your local ISP for example).

I have my home one set to ntp.blueyonder.co.uk

Stefan

 

Yes but the Windows XP clock updater thingy only seems to check the NTP server once a week or so.

There's a great utility called About Time that will update from an NTP server at any time interval you specify. Pre-XP, I used to update the time every hour.

I always use time.nist.gov as the NTP server too. Can't trust MS to get the time right (and I guess NIST is a tier 1 NTP server).