Hey guys,

I wrote a service that runs under Windows NT 4.  You simply specify a RAS
connection name when you install the service. The program sleeps until it
detects a RAS connection. It then checks to see if the RAS connection is
the one specified at installation.  If so ( the RAS connection should be
your internet connection ), it attempts to connect to a Naval time server
and sets your clock to that time.  A parameter determines how often it will
check the time.  The default is one day so it will only get the time once a
day even if you use that RAS connection more than once a day. Anyone that's
interested is welcome to it. The one drawback is that there is no user
interface. All configuration has to be done through directly editing params
in the registry.  My company has been using this program for over a year
with no problems. However, I am sure when it is introduced into a new
environment a few bugs will rear its ugly head.

Just let me know if you're interested.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From:   Mark Willis [SMTP:mwillis@NWLINK.COM]
Sent:   Thursday, February 11, 1999 5:41 PM
To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject:        Re: [OT] Your PC Time & Date

Wagner Lipnharski wrote:
>
> I don't know if you guys have problems with the new posts from
> other members who has its PC Time & Date completely out of this
> world.  If your PC is reflecting a BAD Time & Date, your post
> to the list will carry it wrong too.  When we receive it, your
> post will go the somewhere else in the date/sort list of emails,
> so difficult to find it, with a bit of surprise about;
>
>           "hey, how that email is here for so long
>                    without being noticed?"
>
> I just received one from 12/18/98!!!
>
> What happens is that normally you don't check your PC date/time
> to be correct or not, other people can see it via your emails.
>
> Where in the web we can find that little program that does
> automatic date/time settings everytime you enter in the net?
>
> Wagner Lipnharski.
> http://ustr.net

  I use "AtomClk", myself.  It's not perfect (I'd like it better if,
when it gets a drop-out of it's time host, it'd go snag the next NTP
time server on it's list of servers, instead of displaying an error
dialog box and giving up!)  It works well, though, and I know this
machine's clock is spot on as a result.  (I'm under Dos/Win 3.11 here)

  I've had NO negative results as a result of using this (unless you
count getting used to having it as negative <G>)

  Good places to search for any file you want:

  http://www.filez.com/ "Search over 75 million files" search engine.

  http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/ (and ftp sites etc.) Huge archives
  Tardis2A.Zip is there, off
  http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/win3/inet-pre.html for Win 3.x (They
have Win95 archives as well.)

  http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ Huge Archives
  ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/comm/ has pdclk207.zip (for MS-Dos)

  http://filepile.com/

  http://www.davecentral.com/ (see Connectivity - Time Synch) has many
including AtomTime98, Tardis 4.0, etc. - I think I'll try out Chron 1.4
myself as it looks better than AtomClk.

  Mark