Article ID: 946033
Article Last Modified on 12/14/2007
APPLIES TO
- Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit Edition
- Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit Edition
- Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Edition
- Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit Edition
- Windows Vista Business
- Windows Vista Business 64-bit Edition
- Windows Vista Enterprise
- Windows Vista Home Basic
- Windows Vista Home Premium
- Windows Vista Ultimate
SUMMARY
You use a Windows Vista-based computer that supports High Precision Event Timer (HPET), and the computer runs for several hours. Then, you may notice that the system time differs from the BIOS time by several seconds.
MORE INFORMATION
This time difference occurs because the HPET hardware and the Real-Time Clock (RTC) are never completely accurate. The W32Time service synchronizes the system time with a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server to account for any time differences. If there is no active connection to an NTP server, the system time is synchronized with the BIOS clock. If the time difference exceeds 60 seconds, the system time is corrected automatically according to the BIOS clock.
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