I'm running 1.7.9-1 on my 64-bit Windows 7 laptop. I recently noticed that my box was 15 seconds adrift from my Linux desktop. After some minor hassles, I was able to use Clock/Date and Time/Internet Time/Change Settings/Update now to sync with a local ntp server, the same one my desktop is using. At this point the Windows clock on the laptop and my desktop were in sync, but 'date' from a bash window was _still_ 15 seconds out.
Is this a pervasive problem (to test this yourself, just use the Windows UI to set your clock forward a minute, test the 'date' (it should be as per Windows clock), then use the above path to resync with a time server, and observe that 'date' is _not_ adjusted back), or particular to Windows 7/Cygwin 1.7.9? I found vsntp [1] which fixed the problem, but is as far as I can see overkill as it's designed to fix a much more serious problem . . . ht [1] http://www.imacat.idv.tw/tech/vsntp.html -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 651-1426, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
