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Atomic Clock Sync  ver. 2.7.0.3

Review date:

17 Jun 04

Version reviewed:

2.7.0.3 (see Update below)

NOTE: the review only pertains to the version/date mentioned above. Subsequent versions could be quite different from the reviewed version.

Review:

Atomic Clock Sync is a utility to adjust your PC's clock to one of the time servers operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States .

It features proxy support, quick access to the system's time/date applet, and information about your current system settings.

This program is extremely simple to use – just click on the "Ping Atomic Clock" button in the top left hand corner and you will either get a message that you need to adjust your clock (click on "Yes" and the program does this for you) or that your clock time is accurate (usually within 0.5 seconds).

Everyone needs to keep their computer's clock accurate because they do drift a little. Some computers need to be checked weekly, others monthly, but a computer's clock is rarely accurate.

We liked Atomic Clock Sync and are happy to have it on hand to keep our test computer's clock in sync.

Update:

Atomic Clock Sync has been updated to version 2.7.0.3

This freeware Atomic Clock Sync utility can help you keep your local computer up-to-date with the exact current time. This program will reference an atomic clock server to get the current time with the greatest accuracy available and update your PC's information. It can even be set to automatically check the time once a day to keep your PC's time accurate forever. This program DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY SPYWARE or ADWARE! We provide it free simply to promote our World Time Server web site! Atomic Clock Sync will connect to one of the time servers operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States, and will compare the time of your computer with the time on the servers operated by the NIST. This program will then display the difference between your system and the servers and if greater than 15 seconds, it will offer you the option of adjusting your PC by the displayed amount. The overall uncertainty in this comparison should be no worse than +/- 5 seconds under all circumstances and will be substantially less than this value in most cases. Version 2.5 adds the ability to have Atomic Clock Sync start automatically when Windows boots up and to have it start minimized to the system tray. Some users of previous versions were having trouble connecting to a functioning time server and were getting an error regarding 'not an integer' which has been corrected in the current versions. Version 2.7.0.3 allows the program to start minimized, fixing a problem with earlier releases of 2.7