Mto,

I guess your suggestion works for WinXP, however in
Winblows 2k, there is no tab that says Internet related
to the clock :-( Guess they thought that it was un-needed :-(

Thanks,
Don Capps

"mto" <nobody@dontsendmeanyspam.thanks> wrote in message
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> "Capps" <capps@iozone.org> wrote in message
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> > I was aware of the meaning of Daytime and its normal
> > usage. The question is, why does my Windoze boxen try to get
> > time from Microsoft ? I certainly didn't turn on any feature
> > that requested time sync from Microsoft, and have been
> > unable to find any way to disable this persistent connection.
> <SNIP>
> Have you not noticed that invariably MS products come with all features
> turned on by default leaving the user to figure out what to turn off? And
> that they never give you the first clue what something might be doing? Or
> that even if you do something like set scripts to "prompt" IE will tell
you
> "Most scripts are safe to run. Do you want to run scripts?"
>
> Don't know about NT 2000 but XP checks the time of the system clock about
> weekly. Gives two choices - microsoft and the national clock. Right
click
> on the time in your mainscreen toolbar while online. Click on the top tab
> that says Internet. Choose which time source you want to use.
>
>