XPost: microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter   
   From: chrisv@nospam.invalid   
      
   SoCalCommie wrote:   
   > Thinking about the DST changes this year, I discovered something that   
   > may be of interest to the group(s). I've been a longtime user of   
   > Win2K and use a simple, free program (AboutTime) to keep my computers   
   > 'on-time' using a choice of up to 4 NTP servers (NIST is the 1st on   
   > my list). When I installed MCE2005 on my new HTPC, I naturally added   
   > that program as well (I was unaware of XP's built-in NTP client). The   
   > program checks the time every 6 hours (my choice), and adjusts the   
   > time if required (usually it's only off by a few hundred   
   > milli-seconds as indicated in the log). On the XP box (before I   
   > turned off the built-in NTP client), every day, once a day, the   
   > correction was as much as 500 seconds!!! (Bad news for scheduled TV   
   > recordings in MCE and data syncronization between computers on the   
   > network.) Since I've disabled MS's NTP client (which checks the time   
   > once a day by default), the XP box acts like the other computers in   
   > my network (less than a second off). This suggests to me that MS's   
   > NTP server is not providing the correct time! Yes?   
      
   Yes. Always has been wrong, select a different one.   
      
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