{"id":998,"date":"2021-04-24T14:14:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T19:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/?p=998"},"modified":"2021-05-07T09:15:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T14:15:15","slug":"the-best-time-synchronization-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/24\/the-best-time-synchronization-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Time Synchronization for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The best way to synchronize the time of your Windows based PC is not a third party add-on.  It is to use the capabilities built into Windows 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have read numerous threads in amateur radio forums about time synchronization for digital modes such as FT8 and FT4.  These usually turn into long threads recommending this or that third party solution.  None of them are needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the solution that I use.  It requires only Windows 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open a Windows 10 command prompt as administrator and run the following commands.  These stop  time synchronization and resets the service to some defaults settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>net stop w32time\nw32tm \/unregister\nw32tm \/register<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, run regedit.  Carefully make the following changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\w32time\\Config\\MinPollInterval\n     Set to 10 decimal\n\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\w32time\\Config\\MaxPollInterval\n     Set to 15 decimal\n\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\w32time\\Parameters\\NtpServer\n     Set to time.windows.com,0x9\n     If you have a different server you want to use feel free to do so\n\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\w32time\\TimeProviders\\NtpClient\\SpecialPollInterval\n     Set to 1800 decimal\n     This will update the time every 30 minutes\n     You may have to create this key<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If your computer is not attached to a domain (normally the case for non-workplace computers), make sure that time synchronization is automatically triggered when your computer is on the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code><code>sc triggerinfo w32time start\/networkon stop\/networkoff<\/code><\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, restart time synchronization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>net start w32time<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This restarts the time synchronization process.  Your time will be synchronized to the ntp server that you specify every 30 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check your work with the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>w32tm \/query \/peers<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The output will show that you are synchronized and to what server.  I run a local GPS time source.  This is what my output looks like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Peer: ntp.private,0x9\nState: Active\nTime Remaining: 0.0000000s\nMode: 3 (Client)\nStratum: 0 (unspecified)\nPeerPoll Interval: 0 (unspecified)\nHostPoll Interval: 10 (1024s)\n\nPeer: ntp.private,0x9\nState: Active\nTime Remaining: 1784.6442139s\nMode: 3 (Client)\nStratum: 1 (primary reference - syncd by radio clock)\nPeerPoll Interval: 17 (out of valid range)\nHostPoll Interval: 10 (1024s)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>73 de K2IE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best way to synchronize the time of your Windows based PC is not a third party add-on. It is to use the capabilities built into Windows 10. I have read numerous threads in amateur radio forums about time synchronization for digital modes such as FT8 and FT4. These usually turn into long threads recommending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/24\/the-best-time-synchronization-for-windows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Best Time Synchronization for Windows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[228,227,230,231,47,229],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","category-technology","tag-ft4","tag-ft8","tag-ntp","tag-time-sync","tag-windows-10","tag-wsjt-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}