Here is an updated URL to NIST Time software:
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm

Regards,
Goran Halfvarson


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel M. Blackman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Clock losing time


> While mine doesn't lose a minute a day, it is always off at least a few
> seconds.  Go to www.time.nist.gov and download this little 50 Kb program
> that you can config to run periodically to reset your clock.  I do it
> manually every second or third day. This site and a list of others are
> connected to the government's atomic clocks.  I set my watch by it every
> time I do it. If you can't remember to do it manually, then configure it
to
> do it automatically.  A minute a day is quite a bit, but having never run
> into this problem before, I can't offer an opinion as to whether anything
of
> any import is wrong.
>
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Clock losing time
>
> Clocks in PCs are never accurate, I was always resetting mine until I
> acquired Atomic clock , a piece of software which sits on your PC and
comes
> into action when you are connected to the net, very small, very simple,
> unfortunately I have forgotten the URL but a simple search will find it
>
> Hi,
> I am wondering what it means that the clock in my system tray continues to
> lose time even though I changed the cmos battery only a short while ago.
It
> is losing time more slowly now than it did before I changed it but still
> falls behind about a minute each day.
> I have a Micron MME, 200 megahertz processor, 48 meg of ram, Diamond
> Stealth video card.
> Is it likely that I simply purchased a faulty battery or does it mean
> something more serious?
> Thanks in advance for any help regarding this.
> George
>
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