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NetTime is a Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) client for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8 and Server 2003/2008/2012. (32 bit and 64 bit operating systems are both supported)
If you're looking for a program to keep your system time accurate, you've just found it!
Its main attributes are:
Free
Open Source
Small
Easy to Install and Use
And most importantly: Reliable
NetTime was originally written by Graham Mainwaring in 1997 with an open source release made in 1998. Graham made a number of updates to the program until he lost interest and finally abandoned the project officially on the 1st of July
2004.
The NetTime project has been resurrected by myself, Mark Griffiths, and I'm now making an updated version available here:
If you find NetTime useful, please consider making a donation to show your appreciation and to encourage further development of NetTime!
Download:
Version 3.14 - Current Stable Version:
Installer: NetTimeSetup-314.exe
Version 3.20 Alpha 1:
Installer: NetTimeSetup-320a1.exe
Previous versions as well as the source code can be downloaded from the SourceForge project page
Note: When upgrading from a previous version, you will need to shut down both the NetTime Service as well as the Tray Icon before running the installer. If you uninstall the old version first, you will need to restart your computer before starting the new installer.
Configuration Notes:
Most settings should be fairly self explanatory, however some people have asked for clarification on certain settings:
Max Free Run: Indicates how long the program will run for without getting a valid sync befores it considers the local time to no longer be accurate. Once this time period expires, the tray icon will change to a cross and if it's configured to act as a time server, it will stop responding to requests for the time.
If Time adjustment greater than: The default setting for this means that the local time will be updated regardless of how much difference there is between the current local time and the time reported by the remote server. There shouldn't normally be a reason to change this as the current version of NetTime will check with multiple
servers to ensure that it isn't using an invalid time.
Always provide time: Enabling this option isn't recommended. Normally, NetTime will only provide time to other systems if it is configured to do and and it has successfully synced to an upstream server. If you enable the option to always provide time, you may find that it will give out invalid time to any systems that connect to it!
If you are using NetTime to act as a time server, you will need to disable the built in Time Service in Windows first. Although the description for the Windows Time Service indicates that disabling it may prevent other services from loading, I'm not currently aware of any such services that do actually require it. If you're not using
NetTime as a time server, disabling the Windows Time Service is optional, but there shouldn't be any harm in disabling it to save a bit of RAM.
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You can quickly install the client by running the above installer with either the /silent or /verysilent command line switches.
If you want to preconfigure settings that are different to the defaults, they are stored in the registry under:
HKLM\Software\Subjective Software\NetTime
On 64 bit systems, the above location is remapped to:
HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Subjective Software\NetTime
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Added automatic syncing on additional triggers - e.g. resuming from suspend, time jumping forward or backwards
Added logging capability
Added extra information to the UI to show more details such as the time to the next sync, adjustment for the last sync and offsets and lag for each server queried
Changed server query method to minimize server loads - it now queries only a single server, unless it finds a time difference of greater than 10 seconds, in which case it will check with an alternate server to ensure that an invalid time isn't used
Improved handling of UAC - User Account Control - under Windows Vista & 7
Dropped Windows 95 pseudo service - Can still be used under Windows 98/98/Me as a regular application however
Removed automatic configuration screens for searching for available servers - not needed with the NTP Pool default servers
Fixed several UI problems
Fixed problems with running the client under limited user accounts in conjunction with the NetTime Windows Service
Various other minor fixes and improvements
Despite the amount of work that has gone into this updated version, most of the credit for it still lies with Graham Mainwaring.
Source Notes:
The latest version of NetTime was compiled and tested with Borland Delphi 7 Professional. Earlier versions have also been tested to compile successfully with the Personal Edition of Delphi 7 - if you would like to get into Delphi and make changes to NetTime, you might be able to still find a copy of Delphi 7 Personal Edition that
you can download if you do enough searching. Alternatively, you can try using the latest trial version of Delphi available from Embarcadero.
The latest version has been tested with Delphi XE2 Professional: The current version includes an older version of the Internet Component Suite which is not compatible with Unicode versions of Delphi (i.e. Delphi 2009 and newer) Upgrading to the latest version of the Internet Component Suite by Franois Piette will resolve the
Unicode issues. When upgrading to the new version of the Internet Component Suite, you will need to change the reference to HttpProt in the uses clause of UpdateCheck.pas to read OverbyteIcsHttpProt.
Contact me:
If you discover any problems with this version or would like to make a suggestion, please contact me: mark@timesynctool.com
Of course, as this is free software, I can't give any guarantees as to when (or even if) any feature requests will be incorporated into a future version - unless you're wanting to pay for it of course! If you have a programming project that you would like me to work on for you, you're certainly more than welcome to contact me!
Accuracy Notes:
NetTime, like most SNTP clients, will generally sync your system time to within 100 milliseconds of the correct time - often within 10 milliseconds. Of course, the accuracy is highly dependant on the accuracy of the server that it is connecting to - This updated version of NetTime has improvements included to try to ensure that
even a badly inaccurate time server won't put the system time out - more information about this is included under History & Other Notes at the bottom. Asymmetric latency (Network delay which takes longer one way than the other) can also have an adverse impact on time accuracy.
SNTP clients resync the system time at regular intervals - between these time syncs, the system will be allowed to run at it's normal speed which may mean that it runs either fast or slow - gradually putting the system time out until the next sync takes place. The speed at which the system time deviates from the correct time depends
greatly on the system hardware and also to a certain extent what software is being run. Most PCs gain or lose a few seconds each day, however I've seen a system that loses 9 seconds per hour - more than 3.5 minutes per day!
The vast majority of users should find that NetTime more than meets their needs, however if you have specific requirements for very accurate time, I recommend that you investigate installing a full NTP client. Although you can set NetTime to sync more frequently to compensate for an inaccurate system clock, this isn't really
recommended because of the greater strain that it puts onto the public NTP servers. A full NTP client has extra features to ensure better time accuracy (normally well below 10 milliseconds even between time syncs) by adjusting the rate that the system clock runs at. If you are administering a large number of PCs for an
organization, it's also recommended that you configure a full NTP client on your network and have the rest of your systems sync to it with an SNTP client - this reduces the load on the public time servers even further as well as ensuring that all systems are in sync with a single time source.
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