Any way to synchronize internet time more frequently?

So i notice that my windows clock for some reason falls behind my local time clock by a few minutes after a few days. It corrects itself after syncing with windows time online but thats only once a week. Is there a way to make it sync every day or something?

I'm also wondering why my time falls behind anyway?

 

If your Internet Time dialog reads "This computer is set to automatically synchronize on a scheduled basis" use the Windows 7 instructions. If the dialog reads "The clock was successfully synchronized with {your ntp server} on {date} at {time}" use the Windows Vista method.

Windows Vista:

To change the update interval you will need to edit your registry. Open regedit.exe, make a backup of your registry, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient and set the decimal value of the SpecialPollInterval key to some other value in seconds.

I suggest using a value of 86,400 (1 day) or 172,800 (2 days). The default is 604,800 (7 days/1 week).

Windows 7:

Start the Task Scheduler (taskschd.msc). Navigate to the Task Scheduler Library\Microsoft\Windows\Time Synchronization folder. Select the SynchronizeTime task and go to Properties. Select the Triggers tab, choose the appropriate trigger, click Edit... and modify the schedule to suit your needs.

--L.

 

RTC clock battery going bad? Might want to check that $2- item before going through the hassles of setting up a more frequent NTP refresh.

 

Or rather some computers are bad at timekeeping... my old laptop was never accurate - my Vaio is pretty good though.

 

Computers aren't just randomly bad at timekeeping. It's a hardware issue if it keeps losing time, almost certainly a dead or dying CMOS battery. There's pretty much nothing else that would cause that. I mean, a $5 digital watch can keep correct time... there's no reason any computer shouldn't have at least that good of a clock.

 

Strange... if I am not mistaken my old computer was pretty bad very much from day one over 3 years...
But about being accurate well, on one of our radio controlled clocks it was quite funny to watch how it was sort of correcting itself every minute...