Windows "date modified" and daylight savings time

"J. Clarke" <> wrote in message news:...
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> You don't need "NTP for Windows" with Windows you know. The Windows
> Time
> Service is quite capable of synchronizing to an NTP server, and in fact
> Vista does that out of the box unless it's on a domain, in which case it
> synchronizes to the domain controller.
>
> On XP and earlier you have to do some digging to set it up, on Vista
> it's
> set up right off the clock application in the system tray on the lower
> right. For XP the procedure can be found at
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314054#EXTERNAL. There's a link from
> there
> to the procedure for Windows 2000.

Yes, the Windows Time Service will provide a basic synchronisation, but
not to within a fraction of a second. With XP, the default sync interval
was one week, IIRC, by which time a poor PC clock could be tens of seconds
out. There are a number of reasons to prefer NTP over the basic Windows
software, should you wish:

http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/setup.html#why

Cheers,
David

David J Taylor