On a Mac, open System Preferences, click on the Date & Time pane, and check the box for "Set date and time automatically".
On Unix, read the appropriate RFCs and man pages. For extra credit, search the web for "ntp groper" and see what I was doing twenty years ago. wunder K6WRU On Dec 2, 2013, at 8:45 PM, Phil Kane <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/2/2013 8:19 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: > >> That page says there is a built-in way to keep your clock synced, but >> it is hard to find. Why not just walk people through the >> documentation? > > Try this: > > 1. Start the *Registry Editor* > 2. Go to *HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services > \ W32Time \ TimeProviders \ NtpClient \* > 3. Double-click the *SpecialPollInterval* value, and change the Base > of the *Value data* to *Decimal* > 4. Now change the *Value data* to the time interval you desire, > noting that the time is given in seconds (so for 1 day the value > would be *86400*, while the default (7 days) is *604800* > 5. Close the registry editor > > I set my Windows 7 interval at 3600 (1 hour). > > Warning - as my son the IT specialist says of Registry modifications > "Danger - There Be Dragons". Back up the Registry before proceeding and > if you are skittish about such surgery, don't do it. > ---- > 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane > Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 > > From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest > Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Walter Underwood [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
