-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-03-15 15:59, James Knott wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Windows also uses NTP, but it's not as accurate as in Linux, if you
use the default client. No, they also have their own method.
What would that method be? When you configure "Internet time settings" in Windows 7, you have to enter a NTP server. I have never seen anything else on Windows. However, if a Windows computer is connected to a domain server, it will obtain time from the domain server.
Yes, that's one method, an AD server.
Regardless, the included NTP client in Windows is not as accurate as in Linux.
I think that on a standalone machine it simply sets the time once, it does not trim the clock speed. I have no proof of this, so just a feeling. On an AD domain it has to keep sync somehow.
There have been other methods in the past for time sync, but they're no longer commonly used and I don't ever recall them being included with Windows.
Those other methods you mention is one possibility; actually, that's what I was thinking of. Time ago I tried to sync a Windows machine against my local NTP server and it failed for that reason precisely. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFDPS8ACgkQIvFNjefEBxod6ACfbNJcme9zkJtkDH3ZngY9GQFv +usAmwSmk1shWgSh9/aTcU2AqjQxfx/k =obSu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org