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IP address for NTP time server?

fishrow — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:27:41 GMT

You know that the router can get its time from an internet NTP time server and some allow you to put in a lettered name like "pool.ntp.org", alternatively they default to an in-built look up IP or say "use this IP..." and have a box for the numbers.
So, can anyone give me an actual IP of a known reliable time server, probably UK/Europe based?
thanks

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

James — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:29:05 GMT

212.159.6.10?

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

Denzil — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:34:57 GMT

A quick search reveals <a href="http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?topic=5679.msg46179">this post</a> with a useful list. Try them as well.

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

zubel — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:35:05 GMT

ntp.plus.net <=> 212.159.6.10
B.

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

bobpullen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:38:14 GMT

Worth noting that there are problems with the Thomson 585v7 routers when trying to use NTP when it's British Summer Time. The router often 'forgets' this setting and falls an hour behind what it should.

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

fishrow — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:25:31 GMT

ok, and sort of in reverse order, as they say!
Bob, ta, but Thomson not involved.
the 212.159.6.10, isn't that our backup DNS? though in fact it came in as an auto-found primary on my router and I found it slow and fixed the DNS on the 212.159.13--- pair.
the list, from 2003! wow but I did limit my search to 777 days which allowed me 2 years Of course things like that probably don't change though I'm not sure, especially when the note at the bottom says "please use DNS/subject to change/use ntp.xxxxxx". I suspect that's really for people putting the NTP setup into a script running a server or Linux box.

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

VileReynard — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:34:26 GMT

You could use

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server ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk
server ntp.cs.strath.ac.uk
server ntps1-0.cs.tu-berlin.de

I do.

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

fishrow — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:22:08 GMT

"server ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk
server ntp.cs.strath.ac.uk"
<yawn>, sorry, login here before I log off upstairs!
well I'd want to use the IP and the 130.88.202.49for ntp2a.mcc still shows up as among the uni's batch, so try that after breakfast. cheers

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

shermans — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:07:05 GMT

I use a small program called Automachron. If I change the time server to ntp.plus.net, I then have to enter a protocol like "Time/TCP" and "Port 123" or "SNTP v1" and "Port 123" etc. So what would I use for Plusnet ?

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

VileReynard — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:23:16 GMT

Why?

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

jelv — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:25:16 GMT

The same question occurred to me. With recent versions of Windows I don't see the point of such programs.

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

shermans — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:30:17 GMT

I am obviously missing something about XP which I did not know I have used Autmachron since the old W98 days. Is there something in XP that makes this redundant and which I should know about ?
I use Automachron to automaticaly update / synchronise the time on the laptop. Maybe XP does this automatically but I was not aware of it.

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

pierre_pierre — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:39:36 GMT

easy really 1) control panel 2) Date and time 3)internet time tab, thats all

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

shermans — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:18:26 GMT

Well I am jiggered ! I id not know that. Thanks for the info.
I suppose that the difference between Automachron and the XP version is that with Automachron, you can set the update / synchronisation time to suit yourself - every minute if necessary !! (hardly), whereas with XP it is only once a wek.

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

pierre_pierre — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:24:02 GMT

but it has a button to do an instantaneous update

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

jelv — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:56:02 GMT

If you add the following to the registry you can synchronise with the Plusnet time server:

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DateTime\Servers]
"3"="ntp.plus.net"

Note the key number has to be the next spare number.
If you don't understand this post you are best off leaving well alone!

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

pierre_pierre — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:45:22 GMT

but PN time goes up the creek when the clocks change, the M$S one has the time shifts for most of the world and changes automatically, They have altered their data base fairly recently. Not very often that I give praise to M$S

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

VileReynard — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:01:53 GMT

But the NTP server merely gives UTC time.
It's up to the local machine to convert this to local time.
I get several updates a year for the local time database, usually for places I've never heard of.
Since the whole of Europe (usually) makes their daylight saving time change on the same dates,
it isn't something to be bothered about.

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

pierre_pierre — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:15:50 GMT

are but if you look at the E-mail headers, and they are often in local chineee time, you as if you care can see how long it took to get here

Re: IP address for NTP time server?

pierre_pierre — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:17:11 GMT

Just watching the 2010 fireworks on the news from the far east