Set the date and time automatically

Mar 30, '01 12:10:49PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

As I noticed my system time slowly drifting away from my WWV radio-clock time, I decided to re-check Date & Time settings and found that time wasn't being set automatically. Here's one way to keep your clock synchronized.

Open the Date & Time control panel, and go to the Network Time tab. Make sure Network Time synchronization is OFF (click the button to stop if necessary). Select MANUALLY, and enter an IP address for a Network Time Server (NTS) into the NTP field. There's a listing of appropriate servers at:

www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/time-servers.html

I used the actual IP address (instead of the server name) and it worked perfectly.

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