Windows 8 Time

Time has always been wrong on my Windows computers and the internet time synchronization has always been error prone.
I don't know why microsoft was not able to fix that in the last decade, because this can be a real pain in the neck, especially if one has to rely on exact time keeping.

Anyway today I've found this link:
Configure a manual time source for a selected client computer

In essence it explains two things:

1. How to test if another computer (on the LAN) can be used as time server:
   
   w32tm /stripchart /computer:target /samples:n /dataonly
   
   where target is the name or IP of the time server and n the number of times to query it
   
   
2. How to set another computer (on the LAN) as time server:
   
   w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:peers /syncfromflags:manual /update
   
   Actually it is set up as peer and does not appear in the list of servers (in the property of the clock), but
   
   w32tm /query /peers
   
   lists it, if the call to  w32tm /config succeeded. Note that it must be run as administrator!
   peers may contain a list of names/IP addresses in a quotes string with space as deliminator (e.g. "time1 time2 time3")

As time server I use a linux box with openntpd (does not listen to connections by default, so make sure to enable that in /etc/openntpd if you want to see it).

Now I'll have to see if it actually works...