search

White-Tiger / T-Clock

Highly configurable Windows taskbar clock
1.74k stars 170 forks source link

[Feature Request] Option for automatically synchronizing clock to time server #98

Open KizulEmeraldfire opened 7 years ago

KizulEmeraldfire commented 7 years ago

I know Windows has this option, but for some reason — at least, on my computers — trying to synchronize the clock via Windows 7's built-in synchronization option yields an error three out of five times, thus rendering its scheduled synchronization rather pointless.

For reference: I synchronized my clock using T-Clock and the same time server that I have Windows set to use, and it synchronized the clock on the first try.

White-Tiger commented 7 years ago

Is on my private to-do (or is there even an issue about it?) Though it's not easy to add because time synchronization requires admin privileges. Which means it can't be portable and requires T-Clock to install a service into C:/Program Files/T-Clock-Service which then allows T-Clock the be temporarily executed with admin rights for time-sync (after the Service verified T-Clocks certificates so it can't be abused to receive admin rights)

So this is mostly a security issue which tend to be troublesome.

For the time being.. you could create your own service / task and/or use NTP like I do (it's also using NTP instead of SNTP so it's more precise than T-Clock)

KizulEmeraldfire commented 7 years ago

Hm. I see.

Well, as you say, there are work-arounds. :) I shall work around it for the time being.

Thank you!