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Here is their readme file.
THE HANDY DANDY ANALOGX ATOMIC TIMESYNC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Have you ever wanted all your machines on your local network set to the exact same time? Or have you wanted to make sure that your computer's clock is as accurate as possible? With a name like AnalogX Atomic TimeSync, you know it's just gotta do something cool!
AnalogX Atomic TimeSync let's you synchronize your computers internal clock to any other time server on the web, such as the one at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (http://www.nist.gov/)! This means you can set your computer's time by the same atomic clocks that the military uses - how's that for cool!
But ATS doesn't just stop there, it can also be configured to automatically set your computers time periodically, just to ensure you're right on time. Or if you're like me, and like to have all your clocks 10 minutes fast, ATS can accommodate you as well with a totally customizable shift in hours, minutes, and even seconds that automatically get's applied to any time returned! How often ATS updates your system time is also up to you; just set the interval (in secs), and let ATS take care of the rest.
Still not enough for you? The how about a built in time server, so that once you've synchronized one machine on your local network, you can automatically sync all of the other machines to it! The master time server is also totally customizable, so you can change it from the default 'time-nw.nist.gov' to any other NTP time server out there. For the most complete listing of servers, check out this website:
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm
It's also helpful to pick the closest server to your location, since this will help to eliminate any variance introduced by connection latency.
If you want to use it to synchronize your whole network, here's how to do it; install a copy of ATS on your server machine (we'll use 10.0.0.1 as it's IP for this example) - this will become the time server for your entire network. Now, install a copy of ATS on all the client machines, and change the time server in the config from 'time.nist.gov' to '10.0.0.1'; now they will get their time from your internal network server. Finally, on each client machine, make sure to set some update interval in the config, such as 12 hours or something similar, and enable the 'Set time on update' option so that it adjusts the time automatically.
Please note that ATS will not work through a proxy, so if you wish to sync the other machines on your local network, then you'll want to use the same method detailed above.
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