# Network Time Protocol NTP and time synchronization

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**Created:** 2001-02-13 18:14 UTC
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## Post #1 by @system

<div id="ygrps-yiv-850541188">NT has a service available called w32time consist of 2 files:w32time.exe<br/>
and w32time.ini installed from a cmd prompt by w32time -Automatic.<br/>
Edit the .ini and select the appropriate time source... I have a crontab<br/>
entry in one of my Linux servers running Network Time Protocol -NTPDate<br/>
and synching with the Naval Observatory Clock and another atomic clock at<br/>
PennState it is even smart enough to learn from its own drift. I then have<br/>
one of my BDC&#39;s synching to the Linux NTP source and the workstations<br/>
synching to the BDC time source via w32time time service.<br/>
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Regards, Lee</div>

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