More About What it Does in Detail:

The keir.net website gives quite a lot of information which includes following details:

Neutron is a very simple and small time synchronizing program that retrieves the accurate time from one of several specialized time servers on the Internet. Once the network time has been retrieved the program can set your computer’s clock to match it.

Options in the program enable you to automatically obtain the time from the time server and set your clock appropriately at program startup. It is also possible to have the program automatically exit after the time has been set and so is ideal for placing a shortcut in your Startup folder to sync your clock when your computer is started.

Neutron uses the standard Time protocol. The time retrieved from the network time server is given as the number of seconds since midnight on January 1st 1900. Since the protocol only allows accuracy down to the second you may not get the most accurate time possible but it is usually good enough to always be within about half a second of "true" time. Network latency is accommodated in the calculations involved in setting your computer clock.

Having installed the program and running it the following screens and menus are provided:

This review will follow the usual format of presenting the majority of information as screenshots backed up by further information where necessary.

(click on any picture to enlarge where necessary)

Main Window

On starting the main window shows the current system time, that is the time set on your computer.

Clicking the button at the bottom right of the screen open up the Options area:

Here you can set Neutron to:

1. Automatically try the next server in the list if connection fails
2. Automatically sync the time when the program starts
3. Automatically close the program when the time has synchronised

The Time server dropdown allows you to select any one of several time servers:

(Why you would want to I don’t know, personally I would just like a list it works through and an option to update the list)

There are just two other buttons:

Get Atomic Time

synchronize
Once the time has been downloaded from the server it is displayed in the Atomic Time text box:

Help

There is no help file but there is a readme.txt file included which tells you all you need to know about . The same information also appears on the website.

and that’s it a wonderfully simple but useful program

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