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Configuring Windows as a NTP Server

Microsoft Windows has a built in time synchronisation facility called windows time (w32time.exe). Windows time is based on Network Time Protocol (NTP) an Internet protocol designed to synchronise computers on a network. Using Windows Time service it is... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Time Synchronisation with NTP

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is an Internet standard protocol designed over 25 years ago and still under constant development. NTP synchronises devises on a network to a single timing source. If time on a network is not synchronised when applications are c... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Synchronise Time on Your PC using NTP Servers

This article explains how you can synchronise your computer with an absolute time source and can be kept accurate using NTP. Clocks are essential for computers. Everything from sending and email to turning a PC on will involve a timestamp. Computers ar... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Galileo: an End to GPS Time Signal and Positioning Domination

Since the early 1990's the Global Positioning system (GPS) has been the worlds' only fully functioning Global Navigational Satellite System (GNSS). Run by the American military, GPS (sometimes referred to as NAVSTAR) has allowed accurate timing and locati... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Windows 2003 Installing and Configuring an Authoritative NTP Network Time Server.

Precision and time synchronisation is highly important for modern computer networks, without synchronisation many time sensitive transactions would be impossible to carry out. The internal clock in computers does keep time and date information but these ... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Installing a Dedicated NTP GPS Time Server

NTP servers (Network Time Protocol) are devices that can synchronise a computer network to an authoritative UTC time source. UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is a global time scale used throughout the world and provided by atomic clocks. NTP servers ca... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server 2008

Time synchronisation in modern computer networks is essential, all computers need to know the time as many applications, from sending an email to storing information are reliant on the PC knowing when the event took place. Microsoft Windows Server from... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Configuring Windows XP as a NTP Network Time Server

Time synchronisation in modern computer networks is essential, all computers need to know the time as many applications, from sending an email to storing information are reliant on the PC knowing when the event took place. Microsoft Windows XP has a ti... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

The Basics of an NTP Server

NTP servers or Network Time Protocol are devices that connect to a computer network and synchronise all machines to a single time source. Of course most Windows operating systems have an inbuilt NTP program called Windows Time that can synchronise to an I... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Windows Time Server: Synchronising Your Network with NTP

Nearly all a computers activity involves time whether logging a timestamp for when a network was accessed to sending an email, knowing the time is crucial for computer applications. All computers have an on-board clock that provides time and date infor... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Windows Vista: Time Servers, Synchronisation and Time Zone Advice

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 a... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Network Time Protocol (NTP): The Way it Works

Network Time Protocol (NTP) is probably the Internet's oldest protocol. Developed at the University of Delaware, it has been in use and continually updated for the last 25 years. In short it is a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks on computers an... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

Time Wars: Confrontation in Time Keeping

Time is certainly a concept most of us take for granted, it passes us by and we only notice it when we catch a glimpse of a grey hair in the mirror or arrive late for that important meeting. Yet keeping track of the time has occupied mankind for millennia... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

NTP: Accurate Network Time Synchronisation

All PC's and networking devices use clocks to maintain an internal system time. These clocks, called Real Time Clock chips (RTC) provide time and date information. The chips are battery backed so that even during power outages, they can maintain time. How... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

NTP Servers: Basic NTP Configuration

Network Time Protocol has been developed to keep computers synchronized. All computers are prone to drift and accurate timing is essential for many time critical applications. A version of NTP is installed on most versions of Windows (although a stripp... Read >
Author: Richard N Williams

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