What OS? If its Win2000 or higher, yes, there is a service (SNTP) that can
pull time and date sync from the internet. Its required in w2k because of
Microsoft's implementation of kerberos v5.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechn
ol/windows2000serv/maintain/operate/wintime.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnw2kmag01/
html/TimeWin2K.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q224799&

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q262680&

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1769.txt?number=1769

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Hope this helps
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Carl Lindgren
C. R. Lindgren Consulting
Minneapolis, MN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Davis" <davisn at mailandnews.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 10:55 PM
Subject: [TCLUG] [OT] Windows and Hardware clock in UTC


> This is off-topic, but I'm wondering if anyone knows how to make windows
> make sense of a hardware clock set to UTC.  I have a laptop that's dual
> bootable, and the Linux side uses NTP to synchronize the time, so
> setting the hardware clock to UTC makes a lot of sense.  However,
> Windows then displays very wierd time and I can't use AFS (in windows)
> because of the "time difference".  It would be nice to make windows use
> UTC, but if it's not possible I suppose setting the timezone to GMT
> would work just as well (sans the fact that the displayed time will be
> for a different timezone).  Any suggestions?
>
> --Nathan Davis
>
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