Thanks to all so far! The drift goes off into minutes apart.
I presume somewhere in those TechNet articles is something (registry hack to workstations via GPO) that can have servers and workstations sync with the DC every 1-2 hours? (At first skimming, it's not all that clear.) Thanks again.... -----Original Message----- From: Steve Kradel [mailto:skra...@zetetic.net] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Time sync How much time skew are we talking about here? While MSFT will only support w32tm accuracy within 1-2 seconds, in practice I have found it to be stable within a tenth of a second or less, and would not feel compelled to look into very-high-accuracy NTP clients for regular non-scientific applications. Do you have separate systems recording the timestamps of an incoming call and the creation of a linked medical record, or are things unreliable even on a single host? --Steve On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Richard McClary <richard.mccl...@aspca.org> wrote: > Greetings! > > > > I'm sure I and many others have asked this (but are still stumped). > Ken S's reply yesterday pointing to ultimately a chain of TechNet > articles has shed some light and will start us digging. > > > > Microsoft admits W32Time is sloppy > (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939322) > - mainly meant to make Kerberos v5 work. > > > > Our issue is, W32Time lets things drift enough for weird things to > occur in our medical records. > > > > We have a veterinary toxicology consulting hotline. Because things > get out of sync a bit, we frequently have medical records opening > before a client's telephone call is received. > > > > The article referenced above essentially says to go find an > alternative to W32Time. NIST has gathered a list of time sync > software. QUESTION: has anyone on the list used (and would > recommend) anything on that list to fix the "record created prior to the > call" situation? > (http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/softwarelist.cfm) > > > > Thank you... > > -- > > richard > > > > > > The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, > is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(r) > (ASPCA(r)) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein > and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If > you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby > notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the > contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please > immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the > original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
