[ntp:questions] Windows time question.
DaveB
g8kbv at uko2.co.uk
Thu Apr 21 07:37:41 UTC 2011
In article <slrniqthhs.rs6.nomail at xs8.xs4all.nl>, nomail at example.com
says...
>
> David J Taylor <david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> >> Hi All.
> > []
> >> At least, looking in the system error and info logs, after recovering
> >> from a lockup, it's related to W32Time going bad, not long after first
> >> boot of the day.
> > []
> >> Idea's brickbats etc welcome...
> >>
> >> Regards.
> >>
> >> DaveB.
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > Forget W32Time and use NTP exclusively. I have it on the portables here,
> > which I've used throughout the UK and world-wide. You can see the
> > world-wide entries commented out with the "#" symbol.
> >
> > Install guide:
> > http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/setup.html
> >
> > Sample configuration:
> >
> > __________________________________________
> > server 0.uk.pool.ntp.org iburst
> > server 1.uk.pool.ntp.org iburst
> > server 2.uk.pool.ntp.org iburst
> > server 0.nl.pool.ntp.org iburst
> > server 1.nl.pool.ntp.org iburst
>
> Omit the region codes (uk, nl etc).
> They are no longer required and when you are mobile you should
> not have them. The pool.ntp.org dns determines where you send
> your request from and returns servers that are local to you.
Interesting. I didn't know that (the no needeing the region codes
thing) Thanks.
DaveB
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