Accurately Synchronise the Time on Your Computer with Neutron
Posted by: Barry Cleave in Portable Freeware, tags: Atomic Time, Freeware, Independant Review, Programs, Software, Synchronize Time, System Time, Utilities, Vista, Windows, Windows XPWhat’s This All About?
Neutron is a tiny portable utility to synchronize your computer with “Atomic Clocks” through various Internet servers.
Why Would You Want It?
While you probably don’t need the time on your computer to be accurate to the second you will often want it to be correct to the minute. Things like scheduled reminders or recordings of programmes are obvious examples. It is also useful to have reasonably accurate time “stamps” on the creation and modification of files.
I have had occasions where a computer has been years out due to corruption of the bios information on a power failure and then the system restarts with the bios reset to the base date or some other completely wrong time. If this goes unnoticed you can have hundreds of files with the wrong dates and (perhaps) even worse restore points that are incorrect. Trying to sort duplicates where files have incorrect dates or synchronising files across your local area network can be made far more difficult if different machines don’t have the same time.
So a simple, tiny utility that will make sure you don’t have this problem is well worth while.
What Does It Do – The Essentials?
Summary:
- Looks up the exact time on Internet Servers
- Synchronises the local computer either manually or automatically
- Syncs at Startup (Optional)
Pros: What’s Good?
Features & Benefits
- Freeware
- Portable
- Very Simple to Use
- Autosync on program run and close
- Low resource use
Cons:What’s Not So Good?
- No Option to Autorun at Startup*
- No option to update the server list
* You need to add a shortcut to Start – Programs – Startup to make this happen
More About What it Does in Detail:
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September 4th, 2008 at 1:54 pm - Edit
Everything sounds good, but why not just used the standard Windows time synchronization service?
November 11th, 2008 at 2:04 am - Edit
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March 16th, 2009 at 6:11 am - Edit
Even i had this problem before, you have to take care whenever you switch on the system you have to change the date and time, you then you can access some application in your system, it’s horrible, So better change battery for your system.Thanks
May 26th, 2009 at 5:25 pm - Edit
It is also useful to have reasonably accurate time stamps on the creation and modification of files.
June 7th, 2009 at 6:14 am - Edit
“Everything sounds good, but why not just used the standard Windows time synchronization service?”
July 24th, 2009 at 11:38 am - Edit
It is also useful to have reasonably accurate time stamps on the creation and modification of files.I have had occasions where a computer has been years out due to corruption of the bios information on a power failure and then the system restarts with the bios reset to the base date or some other completely wrong time.
July 25th, 2009 at 9:17 pm - Edit
Neutron? I just heard it. I’ll try and wish my computer time more accurate