[time] NTP on my home PC

[Adrian von Bidder]

On Thursday 24 February 2005 12.06, Peter Hall wrote:
> I would like to use the NTP facility to synchronise my PC to correct UK
> time.
>
> Is it OK to use:
>
> uk.pool.ntp.org
>
> Do you need my IP address, which is static?

Your static IP address is only needed if you want to offer your computer as 
a part of the pool, for others to use it as a time server.

If you just want to just sync your PC to the pool.ntp.org time server pool, 
then it's fine to just use uk.pool.ntp.org.  Please be sure to use a 
sensible client - some are known to poll the server every second, and this 
causes problems for us if dozens or hundreds of servers do this...

The 'Internet time' setting in recent windows versions is fine, and of 
course the ntpd program from 
http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Main/SoftwareDownloads is fine, too.

greetings
-- vbi

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