Olin,

On Sun, 8 May 2005 16:01:36 -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> phil B wrote:
> > I should have been a bit clearer.  I am checking when
> > I sync up the time.  At that point the PC clock should
> > be  pretty close.
> 
> No, that was my point.  Take a look at the clock when you sync up.  It
> doesn't jump suddenly, unless maybe it's way off.  In some cases anyway, the
> system appears to try adjusting it smoothly.  It may take a while for it to
> get to the "correct" time.

While that may be the better way of doing it (meaning that you don't have "missing" seconds, nor repeated 
ones) and some even tweak the PC's time in fractions of seconds regularly based on previous history, not all 
of the synchronisers do this.  

For example, "Atomic Time Sync" from http://www.worldtimeserver.com just jumps the PC's time directly to the 
time from the time server immediately, so you can be pretty sure it's accurate just after doing the sync.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, Herts


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