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Date:	Sun, 28 Oct 2001 06:44:52 PDT
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: nistime ? ntp107 ?

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Peter,

I use TimeKeeper/2, linked to the NIST in Bolder, Colorado. That worked
just fine this morning

Harry
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Peter Skye wrote:
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> Since it's clock-change time, I figured I'd check out some of the ntp
> clients I don't use. Two of them (nistime.exe and ntp.exe) didn't work
> properly here:
>
> 1. nistime hangs when I run it. The following lines:
>
> nistime -m0 -s0
> nistime -m2 -s0
>
> both "hang" in an OS/2 window. Anybody have any suggestions?
>
> 2. ntp (ntp107) doesn't check the TZ environment variable. It set my
> date to GMT time _and_ didn't set the date ahead; thus instead of moving
> me ahead 8 hours it moved me backwards 16 hours. I used this line:
>
> ntp tick.usno.navy.mil
>
> ntp changed something else too and I can't get my time to set properly;
> I'll reboot after I send this message and see if that fixes whatever the
> problem is.
> _____
>
> And the other four that I know of:
>
> 3. time868 (time868f) is a PM program with "a bunch of options". Seems
> to work okay.
>
> 4. daytime works quite nicely. The following line:
>
> daytime tick.usno.navy.mil
>
> set my clock and took the TZ environment variable into account.
>
> 5. I didn't try TimeKeeper/2 (timekeep) because it doesn't appear to
> offer any functionality that the others don't have _and_ it's shareware.
>
> 6. os2ntp is what I usually run, and it's still the most accurate. It
> uses a phase locked loop and samples as many time servers as you want,
> which gives extremely high accuracy once it's synchronized. The problem
> with it (and the reason I'm testing the other ntp clients) is that it
> automatically adjusts for Daylight Saving time _but_ the phase locked
> loop takes a while to settle down when it's suddenly hit with a 1-hour
> error (undamped oscillations result).
>
> - Peter
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