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From: "Rich Gauszka" If that is the requirement why not use an NTP server? My NAS was getting out of whack so I just set it to get the time from one of the free NTP servers http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/us "Gary Britt" wrote in message news:45ea0753$1{at}w3.nls.net... >I you not anal about having every computer on the network with the exact >same time? I've worked places where they were extremely anal about every >computer must have the exact same time down to the second so some computers >syncing time other than off the domain controller would have been a big no >no? > > I never quite understood it, but they seemed to think it was critical to > the IT department for some reason. > > Gary > > Geo. wrote: >> "Mike N." wrote in message >> news:l1dgu2957ubn3reo468k8h62qbuf9e0tu8{at}4ax.com... >> >>> Daylight Saving Time. Some may characterize DST as a "mini-Y2K". No, >>> it's >>> not, it's worse than Y2K. At least with Y2K, everyone had the runs for >>> the >>> year leading up to it and were prepared. DST has hit American IT over >>> the >>> head with a two-by-four. Here at Sunbelt, we have had buckets of work to >>> do >>> for the transition - updates to SalesLogix, Exchange, SQL 2005, Office, >>> Java runtime engine, etc. >> >> WTF is wrong with these people, has the automatic time switch function >> always worked perfectly for everyone or something, I mean bfd so a >> computer is off by an hour until someone changes the clock. what like >> we've never had that happen before? >> >> Twice every year I have to change half our computer's manually. That's >> why I run an NST program on some of them. it corrects the clocks every >> 5000 seconds and cost me a whopping $0. >> >> Geo. --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5* Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) SEEN-BY: 633/267 @PATH: 379/45 1 633/267 |
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