[time-nuts] Windows XP time

[Rob Kimberley]

I would sooner trust my good friends at Meinberg than Microsoft. They have
been in the timing business for 25+ years now, and are VERY well respected,
and have a large customer base. 

Using two of their LanTime/GPS NTP Time servers here.

Rob K 

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Joseph Gray
Sent: 17 May 2006 08:47
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: [time-nuts] Windows XP time

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.


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