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   XPost: alt.os.windows-xp, aus.computers, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Whatcher?  wrote:   
   > "Rod Speed"  wrote in message   
   > news:4afofuFrpjniU1@individual.net...   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Just at a guess, your CMOS time and system time are always different   
   > and every time you reboot, the CMOS time resets the system time.   
      
   Doesnt explain why doing a manual update using the internet   
   time synch produces a system time thats 5 mins in advance.   
      
   Guess one possibility come to think of it is that the internet time   
   synch isnt actually updating the system time for some reason, in   
   other words the time returned by the synch is just ignored.   
      
   Hmm, just fixed it. To test that particular theory, I manually set   
   the time to about 5 mins earlier than the correct time. Then did   
   a manual synch with internet time, and its now got the correct time.   
      
   So presumably it was binning the internet time for some reason   
   until I manually set it earlier than the correct time. Weird.   
      
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