{"id":472,"date":"2005-06-21T23:20:53-04:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T04:20:53+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/21\/time-keeps-ticking-faster"},"modified":"2005-06-21T23:23:15-04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T04:23:15+00:00","slug":"time-keeps-ticking-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2005\/06\/21\/time-keeps-ticking-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Time keeps ticking&#8230;&nbsp;faster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Does anyone know why otherwise-sane Windows boxes&#8212;four separate installs of 2000 and XP across machines from different vendors&#8212;would advance their clocks by up to 30 seconds every 4-5 minutes?  This doesn&#8217;t happen all of the time, only when they&#8217;re running builds; when the boxes are idle their clocks don&#8217;t diverge from NTP by more than a fraction of a second each <em>day<\/em>.  It&#8217;s really starting to tick me off, since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/tinderbox\/\">Tinderbox<\/a> relies on its build providers having accurate time and complains loudly when someone&#8217;s out of sync.  (While I was composing this post I received five e-mail notifications of unsynchronized updates.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>None of the Linux or Solaris tinderbox builders under similar load have this problem, so it&#8217;s got to be a problem with Windows itself.  Maybe there&#8217;s a magic registry incantation to fix it&#8230; anyone?  <em>Please?<\/em><\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Does anyone know why otherwise-sane Windows boxes&#8212;four separate installs of 2000 and XP across machines from different vendors&#8212;would advance their clocks by up to 30 seconds every 4-5 minutes? This doesn&#8217;t happen all of the time, only when they&#8217;re running builds; when the boxes are idle their clocks don&#8217;t diverge from NTP by more than&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}