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From: David J Taylor on 4 Nov 2009 09:21
"J. Clarke" <> wrote in message news:hcrs4n01sl0(a)news2.newsguy.com...
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> You don't need "NTP for Windows" with Windows you know. The Windows
> Time
> Service is quite capable of synchronizing to an NTP server, and in fact
> Vista does that out of the box unless it's on a domain, in which case it
> synchronizes to the domain controller.
>
> On XP and earlier you have to do some digging to set it up, on Vista
> it's
> set up right off the clock application in the system tray on the lower
> right. For XP the procedure can be found at
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314054#EXTERNAL. There's a link from
> there
> to the procedure for Windows 2000.

Yes, the Windows Time Service will provide a basic synchronisation, but
not to within a fraction of a second. With XP, the default sync interval
was one week, IIRC, by which time a poor PC clock could be tens of seconds
out. There are a number of reasons to prefer NTP over the basic Windows
software, should you wish:

http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/setup.html#why

Cheers,
David

From: rwalker on 4 Nov 2009 14:08
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:57:14 +0000 (UTC), Toxic <staring(a)my_hd.tv>
wrote:

>On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:56:43 +0000, David J Taylor wrote:
>
>> I keep my camera set to UTC rather than local time
>
>
>Good idea,
>and since I've got to go in and dither its clock one of these days,
>I think I'll do likewise.

For me, I only use the time stamp to sort the order photos were taken,
and the particular local time doesn't matter, so I just leave my
camera set on Eastern Standard Time, which is my home time zone. I
could just as easily use UTC I suppose.
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