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How to Keep Accurate Time on your Computer
by David Evans.Most computers have internal clocks dedicated to maintaining system time. The internal real-time clocks rely on relatively cheap crystal oscillators, which are very inaccurate. In many cases computer system time can drift by several minutes each day....
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How to Configure a Windows Time Server
by David Evans.The latest Microsoft Windows operating systems have a time synchronisation utility installed by default called 'Windows Time'. The Windows time service allows a Microsoft network to provide time synchronisation of machines in a domain. This article i...
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Real Time Operating System (rtos)
by Sam.Perfect Application to handle Real time scenariosA real time operating system is based on the OS which has the capability to perform a number of functions at a time. This RTOS only serves real-time applications. These real-time applications include r...
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Your Computer Cant Keep Time
by Stephen Bucaro.----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes are made a...
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Auto shutdown computers at schedule time
by Michael Lee.A typical PC left on for 24 hours each day can use ￡60 or more of energy per year. Turned off at night and weekends, the same units will only use around ￡15 of energy per year. Power outages have happened in the US from New York to Detr...
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Keep Accurate Time On Your Computer
by Dave Evans.Personal Computers have a reputation for having poor time keeping properties. They utilise components that are designed for mass production and low-cost rather than maintaining accurate time. However, there are a number of precise time references ava...
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How Your Computer Can Save The World In Its Spare Time
by Madison Lockwood.Those of us that have been watching the development of the computer industry for some years may remember that one of the alternatives to massive supercomputers developed ten or fifteen years ago was the use of large numbers of smaller computers worki...
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Synchronised Time on your Computer
by Magdalena Sperber.Copyright (c) 2007 Galleon SystemsAn accurate time reference is very important for the use of computer software applications. Athough every Computer includes an internal clock, it pays to check time and date settings are correct on your PC every time...
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Utilizing Ntp Servers For Time Maintenance
by David Evans.Computer servers and workstations have integrated real-time clocks that are based on simple, cheap, crystal oscillators. The real-time clock is battery backed and maintains system time even when the computer is switched off. However, crystal oscillat...
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Be a Computer Genius in No Time
by Jon Caldwell.Modern boards use plastic stand-offs to which the board simply snaps into place or is fastened to by ties. Older PC casings use brass ones that need paper or cardboard washers for the task. There may also be an issue with the alignment of the board i...
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How To Maintain Accurate Time On Your PC
by Dave Evans.PC's have internal real time clocks designed to maintain system time. The internal clocks rely on relatively low-cost crystal oscillators, which are notoriously inaccurate. In many cases PC system time can drift by several minutes each day. This arti...
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How To Sync Your PCs Time To The Radio Atomic Clock Time Signal
by Dave Evans.The MSF radio time broadcast is a long-wave radio transmission of highly accurate time. The signal can be received throughout the whole of the UK and much of North Western Europe. With the additional of a low-cost radio receiver computers and compute...
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Maintaining Precise Time on your Pc Using Ntp Servers
by David Evans.Many computer systems keep very poor time. Often this is due to the low quality of the timing components utilised by the computer. In order to maintain low-cost, inferior timing components are utilised. However, there a number of hardware and softwar...
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Atomic Clock Times
by Richard Romando.Time measured by rotation of Earth is not uniform when compared with time kept by atomic clocks. It was not always so, and atomic clocks underwent changes before giving us accurate time. The first atomic clock, built at the U.S. National Bureau of St...
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How To Decode The MSF-60 Radio Time Signal
by Dave Evans.The MSF-60 atomic clock synchronised radio time transmission is utilised by many NTP Time Server and PC computer systems to provide accurate synchronisation of time critical applications. This article describes how the MSF-60 time signal is decoded b...

Setting up a Windows Time Server
by Dave Evans.The latest Windows operating systems from Microsoft have a time synchronization service installed by default called ‘Windows Time'. The time service allows a Windows network to provide time synchronization of all machines within a domain. This arti...
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Installing and Configuring a Windows 2003 Domain Time Server
by Dave Evans.Computers have integral Real Time Clock chips (RTC) that provide time and date information. The real time clock chips are battery backed so that even during power outages, they can maintain time. The function of the Real Time Clock is to provide accu...
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2003 California Wildfire Worst in Its History to That Time
by Andrew Stratton.The wild fire extended from the Mexican boarder north to the suburbs of Los Angeles. Hundreds of thousands of acres of forest where destroyed. Local vegetation and animal life suffered very large losses and many communities where effected by the disa...
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Securing a NTP Time Server Installation
by Dave Evans.NTP, or Network Time Protocol, was originally developed for ensuring the synchronisation of client machines across the Internet. NTP is one of the oldest Internet protocols still widely used today. The protocol is still widely used to ensure time syn...
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NTP Time Server External Timing References
by Dave Evans.Atomic clocks are utilised to provide a highly precise timing reference. Many types of clock use the generic term 'atomic'. Most atomic clocks are very expensive systems generally only found in National Physics Laboratories. Most commercial precise t...
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Killing Time; the Importance of Time Synchronisation in Criminal Cases.
by Richard N Williams.Copyright (c) 2008 Richard WilliamsOn occasion, we all need to know the time and we have a multitude of different devices to tell us it, from our mobile phones and wrist watches to the office wall clock or the chimes on the radio news. But how accura...
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Time Servers and the Importance of Synchronisation.
by Richard N Williams.Copyright (c) 2008 Richard WilliamsTime servers are like other computer servers in the sense they are usually located on a network. A time server gathers timing information, usually from an external hardware source and then synchronises the network t...
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What is the Correct Time? The Development of Time Scales from GMT to UTC and NTP Servers
by Richard N Williams.Askingsomebody the time may be one of today’s most common questions but have you everwondered where the time on our watches comes from?Accurateclocks have only been around since the mid 17th century, before then,time was completely subjective. Peop...
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Telling the Time in a Global Economy – Benefits of a NTP Server
by Richard N Williams.The worldis becoming an ever smaller place. Modern technology means that it is just aseasy to make a purchase from the other side of the world as it is buy somethingfrom our local high street.Everythingfrom hotels and airline tickets to jewellery and...
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Using National Time and Frequency Signals as a NTP Timing Reference
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