I can only imagine this being a problem if the CMOS Battery is dead causing one to have to manually set the time or it is about to go dead and causing time to be incorrect.
I have never noticed a problem on any platform or OS I have used. Perhaps I am missing something. Yes NTP would do a very nice job if one is connected to the internet. In my portable EmComm work I do not have internet but have not had an issue. 73's Mike On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Stelios Bounanos <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:22:57 -0500, David Kleber < > [email protected]> said: > > > A while back, I suggested that upon startup of FLDIGI, a window pop up > > showing the current time and date that the computer is set to. This > > could appear with a question, "Is your time and date correct" and a yes > > to continue... maybe clicking no would take you to where you can make > > the correction. Perhaps there could be somewhere in the program that > > this could be disabled for those who just can't stand the idea. > > This is a pretty easy problem to solve without involving fldigi. If > your machince is connected to the internet, you can just set up an NTP > client and forget about the issue. It will keep your clock to within a > few milliseconds of the NTP server, accounting for drift and avoiding > large increments. > > Here are some instructions for Windows: > > http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/pdf/win2000xp.pdf > > On Linux systems you would install the ntp package. > > > I think for EmComm, this could become a very important issue, especially > > when logging incoming wrap files during an actual emergency deployment. > > Its pretty important to know that your messages are logged with the > > correct time and date. > > Then you should make good timekeeping part of your SOP. NTP is the > simplest solution. It's much better for fldigi to assume that the time > is correct and let specialised software deal with setting it, because > that's usually a privileged operation that cannot be done in a system > independent manner. > > > -- > > 73, > Stelios, M0GLD. > _______________________________________________ > fldigi-alpha mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fldigi-alpha >
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