[IMC-Tech] System time problem

[Mike Lehman]

Gary,
You may have already seen the discussion on this between Dan and I in 
another thread, but I thought I'd follow-up here also.

Using http://www.time.gov/ I verified that the IMC server, at least, is 
synched with NIST time. I'm not sure if this offers any better/more 
frequent updating than time.windows.gov but, as we all know, any time 
you can get an option that doesn't include "windows" in it will probably 
prove to be more reliable.

As I mentioned, maybe we just need to change the back-up battery in the 
automation computer? It does seem to be something internal to that 
computer, rather than a system problem.
Mike Lehman
<http://time.windows.gov>
Gary Cziko wrote:
> IMC Techies:
>
> The WRFU automation computer (SW corner of production room) keeps 
> moving ahead two minutes which is causing problems for our automated 
> operation.
>
> It is an XP machine and I have selected the Date and Time control 
> panel option to automatically synchronize using the Internet time 
> server time.windows.gov <http://time.windows.gov> which is apparently 
> does every seven days. I am also able to do a manual synchronization, 
> and the time is reset correctly when I do this.  But then in a day or 
> so the system time is two minutes fast again.
>
> Any ideas what is going on? Is it perhaps that we have a network time 
> server that is off by two minutes which takes priority over the 
> Internet time synch? I read in a help file:
>
>     If your computer is a member of a domain
>     <HELP=glossary.hlp%20TOPIC=gls_domain>, your computer clock is
>     probably synchronized automatically by a network time server
>     <HELP=glossary.hlp%20TOPIC=time_server>. If your computer is not a
>     member of a domain, you can synchronize your computer clock with
>     an Internet time server.
>
> I would sure like to solve this problem and get our automation in 
> synch with station IDs at the top of each hour rather than two minutes 
> early.
>
> --Gary