Also, take a look at AboutTime, it allows to to check more than one
source of time off the web. Look at:
http://www.arachnoid.com/abouttime/index.html
73 - Ted - W8TTS
Larry Gauthier wrote:
>
> Pete,
>
> Are you saying that the clock was once accurate, but is now inaccurate? I
> have never had that happen. I have owned my fair share of computers with
> off-tolerance crystals that kept lousy time, but they kept the same lousy
> time all their lives.
>
> Have you changed your processor lately, or altered the BIOS setting of the
> PC to super-clock the CPU? That will cause wildly-inaccurate clock timing.
>
> My PC's clock is reasonably accurate, but to avoid any log-time problems I
> run the free utility from NIST for PC clock management. This program
> auto-magically synchronizes your PC clock to WWV at regular intervals (the
> interval set by you) You can download it from www.time.gov.
>
> -larry
> K8UT
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pete Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <dx4win@mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:03 AM
> Subject: [Dx4win] Clock error
>
> > Help -- the computer I use for TRLog and DX4WIN(a 200 MMX Pentium) has
> > started losing about 12 seconds an hour in its real-time clock -- for
> > example, I set it this morning from the Internet, and when I can back 3
> > hours later it was 38 seconds slow. Is this indicative of battery
> > problems? The computer has been on throughout. I also wonder if perhaps
> > some software that is running on the system -- maybe in background --
> could
> > be responsible.
> >
> > Any advice much appreciated.
> >
> > 73, Pete N4ZR
> >
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