[Skimmertalk] time sync?

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

Yes, use us.pool.ntp.org .  I stopped trying to use time.windows.com and
time.nist.gov a long long time ago.

More info here:   https://www.ntppool.org/en/

73,
Bob, N6TV


On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 2:39 PM David Robbins <k1ttt.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> A couple questions about syncing time on pc’s… I had been setting windows
> and my webcams to sync with time.nist.gov, but recently that has been
> failing on several different machines… both on a webcam that I think runs
> some kind of cut down linux, and on win7 and win10 boxes.
> Time.windows.com seems to work on the ones that time.nist.gov fails on,
> but I’m not sure how accurate it is.  I have 2 machines that run wsjt-x
> when nothing else is happening and 2 machines that run cw skimmer server
> and rtty skimmer server 24/7, plus the n1mm+ logging network that needs to
> sync to something for multi-op contests, plus 2 webcams that time stamp
> photos that I would like to be at least reasonably close.
>
>
>
> Questions…
>
> 1.       Does anyone know if there is a difference between
> time.windows.com and time.nist.gov that would make some machines fail to
> sync on one but work on the other??
>
> 2.       I have a server, win 2012r2 that syncs to time.windows.com,
> would I be better off setting all the lan machines to sync off it rather
> than doing their own sync over the internet??
>
> 3.       Is there a better source than time.windows.com or time.nist.gov
> that works reliably with windoze??
>
>
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> David Robbins K1TTT
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