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- Short: OS timeclock resync tool (version 3.00)
- Author: granta@mindspring.com (Grant Allen)
- Uploader: granta@mindspring.com (Grant Allen)
- Type: comm/net
-
- TimeLord: the system time manager from the western province
- on Gallifrey (otherwise known as the U.S. of A.). It will
- re-sync your system battery clock and the standard OS clock
- with that of an internet host. This tool can be run both
- from the command line and from the WorkBench. When run from
- the WorkBench, the GUI has several additional features not
- available to the transient command:
-
- 1) You can set up a list of hosts with which to re-sync.
- You can manually select a host from the list, or have
- it sequence down through the list, trying each host in
- sequence, until it either successfully connects with
- one or has failed to connect with all of the hosts
- in the list. You can also prioritize the entries by
- moving your favorite entry/entries to the top of the
- list. It will always re-sync from the top of the list
- down. Included are 3 hosts which connect to 3 separate
- addresses at the U.S. Naval Observatory Atomic Clock
- in Washington D.C. (USA), which uses Universal time, rather
- than Eastern time, which is why it's timezone is set
- to GMT. I have included all 3 because not all of them
- are always available (I have had trouble, from time to
- time, connecting with each one). TimeLord also adjusts
- for unexpected things like unusual system base years (the
- provided hosts all have a system base year of 1900!)
- 2) Can be configured to re-sync the clocks at a regular
- interval. It is currently configured to continually
- re-sync the system clocks at 10 minute intervals while
- you are on line. When this feature kicks in to perform
- a re-sync, it attempts to re-sync using the "sequence
- through hosts" feature mentioned in #1. This automatic
- re-sync feature can be disabled by setting the re-sync
- interval to 0 minutes, or through commodities exchange.
- 3) Window can be shrunk and moved off to the side allowing
- it to be run as a background daemon. It also installs
- itself as a commodity allowing you to completely close
- the window, and even disable the auto-resync feature
- mentioned in #2.
-
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-
- The latest version of this tool, and many others developed by me,
- can be found at my web site at:
-
- http://www.mindspring.com/~granta/
-
- I am frequently updating this tool in particular. So, for the
- latest, drop by.
-
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-
- Please don't break up this archive if you upload it elsewhere.
-
-
- You are not allowed to charge for the distribution of this
- utility. I retain all rights to it, but I am not charging any
- fees for its use. It is fully operational (not crippleware),
- and contains NO nag screens!!! All help is built in.
-
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-
- Please drop me a message letting me know what you think of it...
- suggestions, bug reports, comments, ...
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 1636 860 47.4% 03-Jun-99 22:04:06 TimeLord.info
- 10466 3983 61.9% 30-Jul-99 23:49:38 +PROGRAMMING.NOTE
- 433928 183306 57.7% 06-Aug-99 23:34:04 +TimeLord
- 282 161 42.9% 18-Jun-99 17:46:36 +TimeLord.config
- 15124 6377 57.8% 06-Aug-99 23:21:44 +TimeLord.doc
- 835 389 53.4% 03-Jun-99 21:56:30 +TimeLord.info
- 2968 1424 52.0% 06-Aug-99 16:23:20 +TimeLord.readme
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- 465239 196500 57.7% 08-Aug-99 21:35:30 7 files
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