Mr Dave Baxter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All. > > As people on here seem to know about all this, a question if I may. > > This came up while in discussion with another party, in regards to > potential "steps" in time caused by allowing w32time to do the job, > instead of a custom app, or "feature" in yet another program. > > What I'd like to ask, is how does w32time manipulate the local PC's > clock. > > Does it just set the updated time into the system at each poll (about 8 > in 18 hours the last time I looked) > > Or does it tweak the tick rate, to bring the local clock behaviour into > line with the reference source (in this case, a GPS/PPS derrived local > NTP server) elsewhere on the LAN (one switch away.) > > Or, a combination of the above. > > Are there known differences between the different versions of Windows? > (2k, XP, Vista, 7 etc)
It depends on your Windows version and on how you have configured w32time. There are technet articles about it on the Microsoft site. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
