Rob wrote:
Richard B. Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
The easiest thing to do if you can site an antenna where it will have an
unobstructed view of the sky, is to purchase a "hardware reference
clock". The cheapest goes for about $100 US. It's called a GPS18-LVC
if memory serves me. If my memory fails me I'm sure someone will be
delighted to point it out! ;-)
A reference clock is completely unnecessary for what he wants to do,
let alone a view of the sky.
One computer can be synced to the other, and the objective has been
achieved.
I am not sure if Windows XP can act as an NTP time server without install
of ntpd. It can act as a client with no problem.
Maybe ntpd has to be installed on one PC (with LOCAL as the reference
clock) and then the other can either use the w32time standard NTP service
or ntpd can be installed on the second PC as well.
Have you ever tried synching two computers, neither of which has a
stable and accurate source of time? It usually looks something like one
drunken driver trying to follow another!
PCs, in particular, tend to suffer from clock drift. If computers did
have stable and accurate clocks, what would we need NTP for?
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