On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Ole Juul wrote:
| Well, I've had a bit of luck in my quest for a a WATTCP program
| which will set the time on a PC. Actually, I'm a bit surprised that
| nobody here has had any suggestions since this is at the core of
| what this list is about. <g>
Well, it was in my queue for reply, but I was busy!
...
| bunch of others such as, DAYTIME, and NTIME.
|
| The latter is supposed to do what I've been looking for. That is,
| grab the time off a network timeserver and set my clock. Not too
| tall an order, I would think. The problem is, I can't get it to work
| with any of the time servers listed at NIST, nor the two examples in
| the readme. Does anybody here want to give it a try and help me get
| it going?
Works fine here in a dos machine here. I have ntime pointed to ns.bu.edu,
which is the university timeserver machine (actually an alias to one of
the main Unix machines). I put it in autoexec.bat after loading the packet
driver. Sets the machine time every time it boots.
You could try that machine to see if it works.
But, you really want a timeserver nearby, to avoid transmission delays.
Actually, there is a whole hierarchy of timeservers, with, I think 3
levels. It might be that ntime only communicates with the lower level
machines. I think there are special protocols for the higher levels. I
once tried to understand the whole network time protocol (NTP) thing, but
found it very confusing...
My guess is that your ISP probably has at least one machine that will
respond to ntime, so you might want to contact them.
Now, back to lurking and being busy.
Regards
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