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Re: Radio Clock or Internet GMT - which should I believe?
From: Michael Dorl
Date: 2012 Mar 04, 10:58 -0600
From: Michael Dorl
Date: 2012 Mar 04, 10:58 -0600
On 3/4/2012 10:09 AM, Lu Abel wrote: > I read through the link you supplied and the only Internet services I > could find mentioned was NTP which, as a previous poster mentioned, is > a computer-to-computer protocol. Admittedly I haven''t been following this discussion closely but here my 2 cents worth anyway. NTP is a protocol for synchronizing computer clocks between NTP servers OR for a client to retrieve time from a a NTP server. Presumably my Windows computer is such a client. The server can be specified by double clicking the date in your system tray under the "Internet Time" tab in the resulting dialog. The site http://www.ntp.org/ tells a bit about this and has a plethora of links including some to the RFCs defining NTP. RFC stand for Request For Comment although we used to joke that it meant Request For Compliance.
