topic Re: synchronaze time?! in Operating System - Microsoft

synchronaze time?!

kabucek — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:17:30 GMT

Customers want to have their time on theirs laptops, Blackberries, PC’s synchronize. Is there a way to do that??

Re: synchronaze time?!

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:43:12 GMT

You can setup NTP to synchronize the times between the computers.

http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/314054/

Re: synchronaze time?!

kabucek — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:02:47 GMT

ok. what about Blackberries?? how to synchronize time on BB with PC ?

Re: synchronaze time?!

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:23:48 GMT

I don't use blackberries but this information may help:

http://blackberryblog.com/2004/10/19/keeping_track_of_time_on_your_blackberry.html
http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-4180,subcat-HANDHELD.html

You can sync with the wireless network, not with the computers.

Re: synchronaze time?!

Allan Bowman — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:20:17 GMT

In other words, if you truly want to have everything in synch, you will need to contact your wireless carrier and find out what source they use for synching their time (or ask if there is a way to synch your computers to them directly). That way your computers will be synching to the same source as the Blackberries.

It may take a few attempts at contacting the carrier before you talk to a person who actually understands what you are trying to do and can help you.

Allan in Atlanta

Re: synchronaze time?!

Jon Finley — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:18:56 GMT

To summerize and confirm the above responces:

BlackBerry's will sync through their wireless provider.

Desktops can sync through either using NTP (as an external add-in for some OS's, or as the built-in network time service in others).

Windows 2000, XP and Vista will sync through their AD Domain Controlers, but you can also set them through either gpedit.msc, registry entries, the network time tab within the Date/Time control, or by using the NET TIME command at a CMD prompt to manually go elsewhere to sync.

In setting up time sync manually, it would be wise to select from either a STRATUM 1 or 2 provider. Here's a list:
http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/StratumOneTimeServers

Jon