XPost: alt.os.windows-xp, aus.computers, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   TyBreaker  wrote   
   > rod.speed@gmail.com wrote   
      
   >> Weird. I've just noticed that my laptop always synchs up 5 mins later   
   >> than the other systems on the lan and it has done that for months.   
      
   >> While its normally connected to the lan by wireless, I get   
   >> exactly the same result when its plugged into the lan too.   
      
   >> Makes no difference which time server I use.   
      
   >> Completely standard XP Home, and the manual resynchs   
   >> are quite happy, just gets the time wrong by 5 mins.   
      
   > I point my computers at au.pool.ntp.org and their web site mentions that   
   > it is possible to come up with variations in time by a few minutes   
   > because it depends on the accuracy of the publicly managed servers in   
   > that pool.   
      
   Cant be that, because all of the PCs/laptop are using the same   
   time server and particularly the one which alarms when the   
   ABC TV News starts, is always within a second of the real time.   
      
   > I was thinking that one scenario could be that your laptop has picked up   
   > it's time from an NTP server that isn't accurate.   
      
   Nope, its the same one that the others use.   
      
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