[time-nuts] NTP apps on Windows question

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

Only tangentially related, but for keeping a Windows PC synced, I'm rather 
partial to NetTime. It's a tiny tray app, quite flexible, and otherwise 
unobtrusive.  It's a freeware app, though donations are accepted....

http://www.timesynctool.com/


On 9/24/2019 19:44 PM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> My feeling is that if you do not have competing applications fighting for
> control of the clock, and your clock time is visibly correct to a second,
> that your problem is not the system time.
>
> Meinberg ntpd by default disables w32time but it may not disable other
> applications (you mentioned a few of them) you have installed that are
> fighting for the system clock.
>
> Tim N3QE
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 5:00 PM Chris Wilson <chris at chriswilson.tv> wrote:
>
>>
>>    24/09/2019 19:58
>>
>> I have used Meinberg NTP and also Thinking Man's Dimension 4 as NTP
>> applications on Windows 7 64 bit OS's on 3 PC's. I use them to sync
>> the PC time for WSJT-X WSPR (a low power digital amateur radio mode)
>> which requires an accurate time on the PC's for successful decoding
>> and transmitting of digital signals.
>>
>> Both Dimension 4 and Meinberg have occasionally not allowed proper
>> syncing with the WSPR application attempting to decode up to 4 seconds
>> late, despite my Trimble Thunderbolt and Lady Heather showing the PC
>> is synced to GPS time within less than a second, by eye.
>>
>>
>> I am now trying another NTP app by DL4YHF Wolfgang Buscher. My
>> questions are, is such an anomaly known and should I disable Windows
>> Internet Time synchronization when using another NTP app? I see no
>> mention of disabling this in any of the NTP application's notes... The
>> WSPR application, WSJT-X has very recently been released in a 64 bit
>> version, which is what I am using, and I have to wonder if the new
>> version has some minor bug as I find it hard to believe two well known
>> and used NTP apps are buggy.
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>>         Best Regards,
>>                     Chris Wilson.
>> mailto: chris at chriswilson.tv
>>
>>
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