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® (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 ~ 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
