On 9/25/19 01:19, Martin Burnicki wrote: > Paul Theodoropoulos via time-nuts wrote: >> Only tangentially related, but for keeping a Windows PC synced, I'm >> rather partial to NetTime. It's a tiny tray app, quite flexible, and >> otherwise unobtrusive.  It's a freeware app, though donations are >> accepted.... >> >> http://www.timesynctool.com/ > It would be interesting to know how this tools works. Over the years > there have been quite a number of tools that just *set* or quickly > adjust the system time in periodic intervals. > > ntpd compares the system time to its configured reference time source(s) > periodically, adjusts the system time smoothly so that the time offset > becomes as small as possible, and even tries to determine and compensate > the system time drift, so that the time offset *stays* small over time. > > Martin Further down the page on that site, the author describes the functionality - it's a typical SNTP client, only syncing periodically, rather than  disciplining the clock, and rightly discourages setting the interval too small if you're using public NTP servers. But with a local NTP server, that should be immaterial. I use it not because I require super-accurate time on my PC, but because it offers a lot more options than Window's built-in and dumbed-down SNTP client. -- Paul Theodoropoulos www.anastrophe.com