Time Synchronization Basics: Configuring Windows as an NTP Server
Posted on November 25, 2008 - Filed Under Communication | Leave a Comment
This article explains basic time synchronization principles and explains basic NTP configuration for Windows systems.
Time synchronization is vital in modern computer networks. Having one machine running a slower clock than another can cause a myriad of all sorts of problems. From the benign, such as emails arriving before they were sent, to the more serious such as being unable to debug a system or have it vulnerable to malicious hackers.
Computers have two clocks, a software clock that runs in the background while the computer is running and a system clock that is battery backed and provides a reference for the software clock when the machine is switched on.
Read More..>>Synchronise Time on Your PC using NTP Servers
Posted on July 21, 2008 - Filed Under Communication | Leave a Comment
This article explains how you can synchronise your computer with an absolute time source and can be kept accurate using NTP.
Read More..>>Windows Vista: Time Servers, Synchronisation and Time Zone Advice
Posted on June 28, 2008 - Filed Under Computers | Leave a Comment
This article explores some
of the useful but little known about time features on windows Vista
It
can be really annoying. You have just got off the plane, booted up your lap top
and set the clock to local time. Yet all your appointments suddenly move, not
just the ones on that side of the ocean either, when you return home and reset
the clock the appointments refuse to go back.
This
problem occurs because of the way a computer handles time. In general computers
ignore time zones and base their time on UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) the international
time standard.
