Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess as long as the NTP client is set up to ensure the time > adjustments are smaller than some value X, it would be acceptable.
NTP is generally capable of keeping the various system clocks on a LAN within a few ms of each other, and within a few 10's of ms over the Internet from GPS, WWV, or similar international time references. > I'll have to look into how to set up Windows XP to prevent users from > changing the time on their own, assuming that's possible. On a single-user system like Windows, you pretty much have to assume the user can do anything. They can turn off NTP, reset the clock, reboot the system, uninstall your software, whatever. If you could check to see that NTP is running, it doesn't prove anything. A malicious and determined user could set up another machine as a NTP server to synch against, and even configure that machine to look like it was a stratum-1 reference (i.e. an atomic clock). At some point, you need to decide if you trust the system administrator to supply you with an accurate system clock or not. If you don't, and it's really important that you have an accurate time reference, you've got an interesting engineering problem on your hands. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list