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Atomic Clocks or NIST accurately setting your computer clock

Most people use or have used a separate third party utility to synchronize my computer clock precisely.

Thanks to National Institute of Standards and Technology,

It has become much easier to do that via Internet with WINDOWS XP Operating System installed.

And consequently there is no need for third party tool you may have bought and installed.

Just Left click on the time (right side of your START bar or panel) then click on INTERNET TIME tab.

Now select the TIME.NIST.GOV and click update now.

Wait your computer clock is still not that advanced.

So therefore you many need to synchronize a couple of times before it works.

If however you are on Broadband you can get the computer to automatically correct itself.

Below is how :‐

It means a trip to the Registry.

Before you start remember this is dangerous stuff and make a System Restore point before starting

Also double check everything that you do before doing it.

Also make a back‐up of the Registry as follows:‐

Click the Menu.> Go to Start > run

Type in the box type Regedit Press. Enter

Click the ʺRegistryʺ (or ʺFileʺ) menu > Click ʺExport Registry File...ʺ

Now be careful to choose an easy to remember location in which to save the file, and an easy to remember name.

At the bottom of that box, under Export Range, there are 2 buttons,

Click the one that says ʺAllʺ, and then click

You will be sorry if you do not take the time to do the above if something goes dreadfully wrong

Go to Start. Run > in the box type > Regedit

Close the files by clicking on the negatives “‐“ to make them positives “ + “

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ scroll to ControlSet001 \ Services \ W32Time \

TimeProviders\ NtpClient

In right‐hand pane, you should see ʺSpecialPollIntervalʺ. Double click and set a decimal number (unit is seconds)( for example 6000) 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.

A 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 follow the above procedure to :‐

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ \CurrentVersion\DateTime\Servers] and add them to the list.