On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 21:44, David Woolley <david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid> wrote: > unruh wrote: > >> The problem on windows is I believe that there is no way to alter the >> system clock rate. On linux, one can permanantly alter the rate at which > > Altering the software clock rate (time added to system time per tick) is the > standard way of adjusting on Windows. What Windows can't do is the adjtime > mechanism, used by ntpd for the user space discipline.
ntpd's Windows port emulates adjtime's interface for the portable ntpd code, implementing in terms of the rate-adjusting SetSystemTimeAdjustment, possible thanks to insider knowledge of the specifics of how the portable code uses adjtime. Cheers, Dave Hart _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
