Posted on 07/20/2017 9:13:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
While WorldTimeServer.com can help you look up accurate times around the world, our visitors have expressed much interest in our help to keep your local computer clock accurate, too. Atomic Clock Synchronization is the best way to make this happen. Windows can do it ...
Windows has a built-in "service" that allows your computer to reference an atomic clock server, such as the atomic clock servers operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States. Your current computer time is compared with the current atomic time and an adjustment is made to keep your local computer up-to-date with the exact time now. ... but it is hard to configure
While it is great to have this functionality in Windows, configuring this time service is painful! If you want to sync more often than the default, you have to be very comfortable editing the System Registry OR you can use our Atomic Clock Sync program to do the work for you. so use Atomic Clock Sync and go the easy route
Atomic Clock Sync offers an easy way to configure how often your computer will check in with an atomic clock server to keep your local system clock adjusted for accuracy. The default in Windows is to sync every 7 days, but you can easily change this to be more often if you find your computer clock gets behind or ahead too quickly.
Atomic Clock Sync can even help repair the Windows Time Service if your computer is no longer able to check for Internet Time updates as it normally would.
Best of all, you can download and use this utility at no cost to you!
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I use a utility from Meinberg.
https://time.gov/
Here's another one, close enough for me. https://time.is/
Told me what town the computer presently using is located in, and that it is seven seconds behind.
At bottom of the page;
Time.is displays exact, official atomic clock time for any time zone (more than 7 million locations) in 46 languages. Automated access is prohibited. Support for cookies and JavaScript is required. Copyright © 2009-2017 Digitz.no. All rights reserved.
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Maintaining perfect time is essential when using two-factor authentication. I’ve had a few (few) instances when my web server was accurate but the local machine was off — always fixed w/ a reboot, although there may be another way, I haven’t bothered to find it.
My larger problem is keeping the server on time (VPS, so I don’t own it). I set a chron for daily time reset and that seems to work now, but sometimes I just have to reboot it. Can be a big pain.
Dimension 4 is what I use to maintain correct time to run WJST-X. It synchs every 15 minutes.
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