[time-nuts] Win XP and NIST Time

David J Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat Mar 23 10:25:15 EDT 2013


Recently, my 'puter clock has been resetting back an hour every so often.
The auto-sync to time.NIST.gov is the timeserver it uses.

Does that site change to Daylight time?
Does the Windows time site change to aylight time?

Tjanks,

-John
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John,

Internally, Windows (like UNIX systems) uses UTC, and that can be kept 
correct by e.g. the NTP software:

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

Windows own timekeeping software is not as robust or accurate.  What you see 
displayed is determined by your Control Panel settings, and that should be 
under your control.  Summer/Winter time settings for a particular time zone 
are what determines how Windows internal UTC is presented to you.

(If you dual-boot between Windows and UNIX, there are other issues.)

Cheers,
David
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