[time-nuts] NTP apps on Windows question

[Martin Burnicki]

Paul Theodoropoulos via time-nuts wrote:
> 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/

It would be interesting to know how this tools works. Over the years
there have been quite a number of tools that just *set* or quickly
adjust the system time in periodic intervals.

ntpd compares the system time to its configured reference time source(s)
periodically, adjusts the system time smoothly so that the time offset
becomes as small as possible, and even tries to determine and compensate
the system time drift, so that the time offset *stays* small over time.

Martin