>>Back in mid I asked this group about using my Garmin 12XL as a time source
>>on XP Pro. Some urged me to use NTP instead. I finally began trying this
>>approach and late Dec. and have not had a lot of luck. Here's what I would
>>like to do. I have two computers, a Linux box and XP box, on a local
>>network. I'd like to set the clock on the XP box daily from an NTP source
>>on the internet. That's been easy to do. At some point during the day, I'd
>>like the linux box to request from XP the correct time. That has not been
>>easy at all. I've been told that XP does not really have NTP, but does

> have

>>sntp. Any request to XP (on 192.168.0.3) goes unheeded.

> I use AnalogX Atomic TimeSync (analogx.com).

> 8 msec is extremely doubtful, but the clock in your computer will not hold
> that on even an hourly update, much less a daily one. It also will work as a
> timeserver on your WinBox, and can be set to update at any frequency, in
> seconds.

> Frank