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  1. How To Use NTP Servers to Synchronise Time on Your PC

    by David Evans - 2008-05-21
    PC's are notoriously poor at keeping time. I am sure the you have probably noticed the time on your PC drifts away from the correct time by a number of seconds or even minutes each day. This is becaus...

  2. GPS Systems for NTP Time Servers and Timing Applications

    by David Evans - 2008-05-17
    The Global Positioning System (GPS) is most widely known as a system for vehicle and marine navigation. However, each GPS satellite orbiting the earth also has an integrated precise atomic clock that ...

  3. Maintaining Precise Time On Your PC Using NTP Servers

    by David Evans - 2007-11-01
    Computers utilise real-time clock chips and crystal oscillators to maintain internal system time. However, due to the need to keep costs low, relatively cheap components are utilised. Therefore, compu...

  4. Configuring An Authoritative Time Server On A Windows 2000 Server

    by David Evans - 2007-10-23
    The Windows 2000 Server operating system includes a time synchronisation service called w32time or ‘Windows Time’. The service is installed by default and runs continuously in the service ...

  5. How To Set Up An Authoritative Time Server In A Windows 2003 Server based Active Directory Network

    by David Evans - 2007-09-16
    The Windows Time service (W32Time) is designed to allow all Windows 2000 or later machines in an organisation to utilise a synchronised time. The service is used to ensure the security of the Windows ...

  6. Building a Stratum 1 GPS NTP Server

    by David Evans - 2007-09-01
    The Network Time Protocol (NTP) was developed to provide a way of synchronising Internet clients to an accurate network time reference. NTP allows the time on client computers to be set to within a fr...

  7. Overview of NTP Servers and the NTP Protocol

    by David Evans - 2007-08-10
    The Network Time Protocol, or NTP, is an internet protocol developed to distribute accurate timing information to network time clients. NTP is a client-server based protocol widely used throughout the...

  8. How To Synchronise Your PC to the Rugby Atomic Radio Time Signal

    by David Evans - 2007-08-02
    The MSF-60 radio atomic clock time signal provides an accurate time reference broadcast throughout the British Isles. The time signal can be used as an accurate time reference to synchronise time on c...

  9. Using GPS for Computer and NTP Server Timing

    by David Evans - 2007-07-18
    The Global Positioning System is a global navigation system operated by the United States Naval Observatory (USNO). The GPS system consists of 24 satellites orbiting the Earth. By utilising relatively...

  10. Configuring NTP on a LINUX Server

    by David Evans - 2007-07-13
    NTP (Network Time Protocol) is an application developed to provide the synchronisation of computers and computer network devices. NTP defines algorithms and a protocol structure to accurately synchron...

  11. Atomic Clock Time References

    by David Evans - 2007-07-06
    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 Nation...

  12. How To Synchronise Your PC's System Time

    by David Evans - 2007-06-29
    Computers maintain time and date information using internal real-time clock chips. These chips are battery-backed and maintain time even when the power to the computer is switched off. However, the co...

  13. NTP Time Server Security Solutions

    by David Evans - 2007-06-24
    The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is an Internet protocol designed to propagate accurate time around a computer network. NTP utilises UDP over TCP/IP to synchronise network time clients to an accurate t...

  14. The Misuse and Abuse of NTP Server Systems

    by David Evans - 2007-05-22
    Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a standard Internet protocol for the dissemination of time around a computer network. The protocol operates in a hierarchical manner, each level or stratum serving the n...

  15. How to Configure a Windows 2003 Time Server

    by David Evans - 2007-05-16
    All PC's have internal Real Time Clocks (RTC) that maintain time and date information. PC real time clocks are battery backed so that they can maintain time even when the PC is powered off. The PC Rea...

  16. NTP Server Reference Clocks

    by David Evans - 2007-05-11
    The Network Time Protocol is the standard Internet protocol for distributing accurate time to network time clients. There are a large number of NTP servers that reside on the Internet and can be freel...

  17. The Difference Between NTP and SNTP Protocols

    by David Evans - 2007-05-03
    NTP, or Network Time Protocol, is one of the oldest Internet protocols still in use today. It is used to distribute accurate time around the Internet and computer networks to network time clients. SNT...

  18. How to Build a NTP Server

    by David Evans - 2007-05-02
    NTP, or Network Time Protocol, is a standard Internet protocol used to distribute accurate time to client computers. NTP is freely downloadable from the NTP website. With the addition of an accurate r...

  19. The Network Time Protocol and NTP Servers

    by David Evans - 2007-04-10
    The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a standard Internet protocol for distributing time around a computer network. The protocol is widely used to synchronise computers and time critical applications to ...

  20. Using The GPS System For Precise Time

    by David Evans - 2007-04-05
    The GPS system can be used to provide a highly accurate timing reference for computer network timing equipment such as NTP Server systems and other time critical applications.This article describes ho...