Re: [ntp:questions] questions Digest, Vol 114, Issue 25

2014-04-16 Thread Martin Burnicki
Terje Mathisen schrieb: James Gibb wrote: [...] Is there still a need to tie the timing threads in Windows 7/8 to a single processor? The MSDN makes it sound as though the TSC should be identical across multiple processors. On modern cpus there is a second TSC which is independent of sleep

Re: [ntp:questions] Automatic time synchronization of local hw clock.

2014-04-16 Thread Martin Burnicki
Mimiko wrote: I don't understand, why so much trouble about clocks in linux? You're wrong. Most trouble with clocks is due to Windows. In windows systems, there is a default time service which synchronise with some time server or domain controller and automatically sets hw (and maybe

Re: [ntp:questions] Automatic time synchronization of local hw clock.

2014-04-16 Thread Rob
Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de wrote: Imagine what happens if you shut down Windows *before* DST starts and reboot *after* DST has started? Your system time will be off by 1 hour because standard time has been written to the RTC at shutdown, but DST is assumed to be read from

Re: [ntp:questions] Automatic time synchronization of local hw clock.

2014-04-16 Thread David Taylor
On 16/04/2014 14:50, Martin Burnicki wrote: [] However, when the NTP service is shut down then it stops disciplining the system time anyway and thus calls the Windows API which sets the time with the current time as new time. This should force Windows to update the time in the RTC chip. []

Re: [ntp:questions] Automatic time synchronization of local hw clock.

2014-04-16 Thread William Unruh
On 2014-04-16, David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: On 16/04/2014 14:50, Martin Burnicki wrote: [] However, when the NTP service is shut down then it stops disciplining the system time anyway and thus calls the Windows API which sets the time with the current time as new

Re: [ntp:questions] Event log configuration?

2014-04-16 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2014-04-03 07:33, David Justice wrote: NTP community, Is there a way to configure the NTP client's windows event logging? I would like to stop it sending informational events to the Windows events logs every time is syncs. The only way I can see to do this is filter the log, but I would