Download/HomepageHave you ever wondered how accurate your system clock is? There have been
discussions in thetrade press and rumors about how much the clocks in PCs drift, mine
seems to lose about two
seconds per day. If you are a Win 95 user, you can get a free copy of AtomTime95 by Bruce
Adelsman and find out how accurate the clock in your PC is. Whenever you decide your PC
clock is too inaccurate, just click on the adjust button and AtomTime95 will set your
clock to match the atomic clock time server in Boulder, Colorado.
AtomTime95 is based on a very simple concept. Read the PC clock, read the atomic clock
server,
compare and report the difference, then give the user an option to adjust the PC clock.
The
user interface is very simple and easy to use. There are a couple of dialog boxes. One of
these
displays times from the time server, the local PC and the difference between the two. This
dialog also sports buttons to check the times, adjust the clock, call the settings screen,
about and exit.
The second dialog has three tabs and deals with options. The execution tab includes things
like triple request time check. The triple request time check requests a time check from
the
time server three times to try and work out the time lag. When the time server tab is
active,
you can choose between the default (Boulder) time server and an alternate. There's more,
but
I'll leave the rest as an exercise for the surfer. Beyond the dialog box options there is
a
case sensitive command line option which causes AtomTime95 to start in the background, get
the
current server value, set your clock and exit.
The AtomTime95 distribution includes a helpful five page MS Word document which describes
how the package works and includes a tips section and a FAQ section. The tips explain how
to keep your PC clock accurate by putting a short cut to the program with an autoUpdate
command line in the start folder.
I've added this freeware program to the Internet Clients folder on my system.
I got my copy of AtomTime95 from the TUCOWS site which is nice because it has lots of
mirror
sites some of which are sprinkled throughout the world.
- It’s freeware
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