Synchronize your PC’s clock
Symmetricom lets you synchronize your PC's clock to any of numerous time servers over the Internet.
By Martin Rowe, Senior Technical Editor -- Test & Measurement World, 3/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
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PC clocks are notorious for not keeping good time. SymmTime, a free Windows application from Symmetricom, lets you synchronize your PC’s clock to any of numerous time servers over the Internet. SymmTime 2010 (version 4.9) lets you display clocks from any time zone (or even make up your own).
When you open SymmTime, you see the clock display shown at the bottom of the figure. To get access to the control panel on the upper part of the screen, you must click on the “wrench” in the lower-right corner. The control panel lets you select the number of clocks to display, choose the design of the clock faces, and determine whether the clocks should be analog, digital, or both. But it does not give you a direct link to select a network time server or to synchronize. To do that, you must right click on the clock window, or you can right click or double click on the SymmTime taskbar icon.
Once you open the sync menu, you can select a time server. The default server is located at Symmetricom’s home in San Jose, CA, but I prefer to find the server that is located closest to me, because that should minimize Internet traffic delays. SymmTime also gives you access to a NIST time server. If you don’t see your preferred server, you can easily find one through an Internet search.
You can select when you want SymmTime to synchronize: at regular intervals, when you open SymmTime, or never. You can also synchronize manually.
You can download SymmTime at www.symmetricom.com/resources/downloads/symmtime. The program will install on your PC even if you don’t have administrator privileges.
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