I see that there are good instructions here too, for multiple OS:

http://www.pool.ntp.org/use.html

Rolf

Rolf wrote:
> Randy Glenn wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Trying to find a solution to this problem, and Gargle is being of
>> little to no help.
>>
>> I got a new notebook last week - a Lenovo - and I've noticed that the
>> system clock seems to stop dead whenever I put the machine to sleep or
>> in hibernation. Also, its system clock will lose 50 minutes randomly
>> while using the machine.
>>
>> Has anyone had a problem like this before? Any solutions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   
>>     
> I'll focus on the NTP side of things. Keeping your system clock accurate 
> is easy if you enable NTP as a system service. I use Win2000, but XP 
> should be similar.
>
> See: 
> http://www.google.ca/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=NTP+XP+site%3Amicrosoft.com&btnG=Search&meta=
>
> Accuracy of your system clock should be within milliseconds of "real" time.
>
> Read up on NTP at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol
>
>  From there is a site dedicated to freely available public NTP 
> servers... here:
> http://ntp.isc.org/
>
> Choose your nearest one from the list of public servers (*not* Stratum1 
> or 2): http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/NTPPoolServers
>
> Rolf
>
>
>   

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