Programs to keep your time more accurate

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Is Microsoft's Time Warped?
Windows XP gets an adjustment to correct a faulty time-synchronization
feature.

Tom Spring, PCWorld.com

Does anybody really know what time it is? Apparently Microsoft
doesn't.

An Internet Time utility built into Windows XP Home and Professional
editions that is supposed to ensure correct system time instead
suffers from intermittent bouts of tardiness, PC World has learned.
Microsoft intends the utility to synchronize your PC's internal clock
via the Internet with the atomic clock maintained by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology. The atomic clock is considered
the Holy Grail of timekeeping. It is referenced daily by millions,
from the military to stock market traders and researchers, by means
other than Microsoft's Internet Time utility.

But repeated tests of the Windows XP Internet Time utility produced a
variety of unharmonious results. Compared with the NIST's atomic
clock, Microsoft was repeatedly off by as much as nine minutes.

Find Your PC's Lost Time

Microsoft's time synchronization feature is meant to correct a PC's
nasty habit of losing time. Computers can lose as much as one minute
each hour with some PC configurations, say developers of time-setting
utilities. With each PC reboot, Windows syncs its software clock with
a slightly more accurate hardware clock affixed to your motherboard.
Both the software and hardware clocks, however, are flawed.

A number of software utilities, including ClockWatch and Time
Synchronizer, can synchronize your PC with NIST's atomic clock.

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I have tried Atomic Clock Sync which is freeware and you can increase
the frequency at which time is synchronized and adjusted.

Outta here,

Andy
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