[time-nuts] Windows XP time

[Joseph Gray]

I just switched from using the built-in SNTP client for Windows XP to the
Windows binary of NTP that I got here:
http://www.meinberg.de/english/sw/ntp.htm

In both instances, I was using the us.pool.ntp.org servers. It seems that
the Windows XP implementation leaves something to be desired. The new NTP
client corrected my PC clock by over 1.5 seconds. Considering that I was
syncing to the same servers in both cases, this leads me to the conclusion
that Microsoft's implementation sucks.

This may be old news to everyone here, but I was surprised that there would
have been that much of a difference between the two clients. Am I missing
something, or is the built-in client really that bad?

When I am able to afford the parts for another computer, I'll probably do as
PHK suggested and use FreeBSD and my Z3801 to have my own time server.