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New MessageClock (modified 0 times) Traveller
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I have set a Webplayer as my home control computer running a Homeseer home control trial. I have hacked it to run Win98 etc. The machine's resources are ample, and being silent, is an ideal and cheap solution. I've even got it running as a webserver that I can access from anywhere in the world. However, the computer's clock is loosing about 3 mins an hour. I swapped it out for another WP that I have prepared for a relative as an email machine that I have soak tested - and it never seems to loose any significant time under test, however this too looses substantial time when all the programs are running. I assume that the processor gets unusually maxed out dealing with the HomeSeer tasks. Anyone got any ideas on how to correct this? Are there any utilities out there that can check the clock and and auto adjust it WITHOUT checking time on the internet ever couple of hours on a regular basis?

TIA

Traveller

11-25-2001 11:05:30

New MessageRE:Clock (modified 0 times) petejengkol
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try atomic clock program at http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock/
you must connect to internet while the program updating system clock .


Peace
Pete

11-25-2001 11:31:48

New MessageRE:Clock (modified 0 times) ManNowhere
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I prefer Dimension4 - sits nicely hidden and waits for an opportunity to hit a net server. Lots of options & easy to use. Set it & forget it.
11-25-2001 21:57:21

New MessageRE:Clock (modified 0 times) ManNowhere
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Actually didn't read your full message until now. I'm guessing you want to assume a loss of 3 min every hour. Only answer I can think of off the top of my head is to create a series of 24 batch files with matching response files that you redirect as input to the batch files. You would set each of the 24 batch files up under "Scheduled Tasks" in Windoze.

To illustrate the idea, here's what would happen at midnite:
1. You'd have a scheduled task that ran hour00.bat, which would contain the following line:

time <hour00.txt

2. For the above, you'd have hour00.txt (in the same directory, or pathed appropriately in the batch file) that contained the following text to add the three minutes we "know" we are behind:

12:03am

Set a pair of these files up for each hour of the day and have them run at the appropriate times under "Scheduled Tasks."

Enjoy!

-ManNowhere

11-25-2001 22:17:35

New MessageRE:Clock (modified 0 times) ManNowhere
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This question stuck in my head. ClockMon may be just what you need. It was written for situations like the one you're descibing wherein Windoze loses time when it's busy, but the BIOS RTC (Real Time Clock) can be considered to remain fairly accurate. This is probably exactly what you were looking for - let me know if it works for you.


Here are some other interesting links, depending upon what you were looking to compare your WP's clock against (which you never really specified other than not having it dial the net on a regular basis).

The NIST ACTS is a non-net based dial up time service if you don't mind dialing the 303 (Colorado) or 808 (Hawaii) area codes. Of course, if you were willing to do this, then you would be willing to dial the internet, wouldn't you? I only pointed this out because I thought it was interesting to still have such a service in this day and age of "everything's connected" devices. So...

If your WP goes into suspend mode at all, then this MS support doc may be appropriate. You should also read this thread that discusses the WP's APM mode problems and a driver that san472 was kind enough to write to fix the problems with suspend mode.

11-27-2001 11:25:28

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