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   From: t.4.2@2.4.t   
      
   "Rod Speed"  wrote in message   
   news:4agug4Ft5112U1@individual.net...   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   It might actually but that goes WAY beyond my programming skills. I think it   
   depends on which takes priority.   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   So is it now ALWAYS OK? Eg, reboot and resync and is it correct?   
      
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