Heard of Atomic Clocks? or NIST ? Here is a tip on accurately setting

Till yesterday I was using a separate third party utility to synchronize my

computer clock precisely. I am not a timely person in all other aspects of

life (not a good thing but have to be truthful !) to worry about time that

too at atomic level but as it is with many things, it sounds like good a

good idea to do it anyway! Thanks to National Institute of Standards and

Technology, It has become much easier to do that via Internet. And there is

no need for third party tool if you have bought WINDOWS XP Operating

System. Just click on the time (right side of your START bar or panel) and

click on INTERNET TIME tab. Select the time.nist.gov and click update now.

Your are all set. Wait a minute your computer clock is still not that

advanced. So you many need to synchronize again and again. But hey, we are

in the computer world and who has time for This manual work. So I have a

solution for you. OPEN registry editor ( I think you know how to open a

registry.. click START-RUN and enter regedit) and navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ ControlSet001 \ Services \ W32Time \

TimeProviders \ NtpClient. In right pane, you would see

"SpecialPollInterval". Double click and set a decimal number (unit is

seconds) to the frequency with which you want to have the automatic

synchronization carried out.

Also you can add many more time servers directly into registry because by

default all that you can see is two time servers in the drop down list.

List of many other time servers is available at

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/

. To add any other time

servers, get details about the server and then navigate to

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DateTime\Serve

rs] and adding them into the list.