David Woolley wrote: > gary.limanap...@elisys.co.uk wrote: > >> >> We are running W32Time on all machines including the servers. The >> server itself obtains its own time independantly via a hardware clock. >> This is used to update the CMOS clock from which W32Time then serves >> out to the Clients. I will take up your suggestion and look into using > > I'm not aware of any time synchronisation software that uses the RTC > clock. They generally use the software clock, which is typically set > from the RTC clock on bootup. > > In any case, w32time, when run without a real server, sends out multiple > indications that the time shouldn't be used, so any real implementation > of NTP would ignore it (w32time doesn't ignore it).
IIRC there is a configuration option for w32time which lets it synchronize periodically to the RTC chip, so this may mb w32time's version of the "local clock". Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
