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Computer Clock Question

I have several networked computer at work running NT4.0. The clocks on these computers are wacko - one gains an hour about every 3 days another loses time almost as fast. The dumb thing in NT you have to have local admin rights to change the clock settings so it gets to be a real pain and a major problem because all of the calendar alarms go off at the wrong time.

A. is there a fix so the clock will keep better time?

B. is there a work around for needing to have admin rights to set the clock?

Thanks for any assistance.

There's NTP (Network Time Protocol). It's used to set the time from a network time server, either intranet or internet. There must be a service for this under NT somewhere.

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IIRC, your network administrator should be able to have all the machines check a time server - pretty much can be any computer the admin designates, doesn't have to be an Internet time server - at predetermined intervals. That would be a solution to keeping the computers in sync, anyway.
How this is done, I'd have to go look up.

Any computer that repeatedly loses several minutes a day should undergo an overhaul; there may be something wrong with it.

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Originally posted by Yorick
[...] Any computer that repeatedly loses several minutes a day should undergo an overhaul; there may be something wrong with it.

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