K9 User manual - HC Mingham
Contents
1. Copyright H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 8 of 18 5 Installation for Windows 95 98 ME Just run it It is so simple that there is no installation or configuration required K9 uses no registry or ini file settings Run K995 exe and it will quietly operate in the background with no fuss Pop it into your startup folder so that it runs when you start your system and forget it But don t forget to register 5 1 Command line options b Make a noise when broadcasts are received d Show some debug info 0 Run until the first broadcast is received then quit a Install k995 as a service so it will run when the system is started whether anyone is logged in or not K995 does not need to be put in the startup folder if this option is used The option only needs to be used once After that the service will start automatically T Removes the service i run k995 invisibly so it doesn t show in the task list Copyright H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 9 of 18 6 Installation for Windows Mobile 2003 Run the k9cesetup exe install program on the PC that the Pocket PC is associated with You should get the following message Pending Application Install On the next mobile device connection the installed applications will be downloaded to the device Run ActiveSync to complete the installation Installing Applications Install H C Mingham Smith Ltd k9 using2. PO PO Pe Pe Pe Pe Pa Pe Frequently asked questions Why are there different windows versions The Windows versions all have their own idiosyncrasies The Win 95 98 ME and 3 1 versions of K9 K995 exe and K931 exe are basically the same but the Win 3 1 version has it s own support for timezone built in because Windows 3 1 doesn t support it The Windows NT 2000 XP version K9nt exe is quite different because it runs as a service so it is still working when nobody is logged in The Windows Mobile Version runs on a PDA so it has to do things differently Who is K9 for K9 is designed to be used on a LAN within a company It is not for dialup users they should use Tardis Why is it called K9 K9 is a robot dog that appeared on BBC TV s Dr Who program Since K9 is a companion to Tardis it seemed like a good idea at the time Where do I find the latest version of K9 Visit the K9 home page http www mingham smith com k9 htm Why should I use K9 instead of Tardis It is easier to deploy to many users because it has no configuration It has very low memory requirements Why should I use K9 instead of xntp on Linux It is easier to deploy to many users because it has no configuration It has low memory requirements compared to xntp about one third the memory size What is NTP NTP is an Internet protocol for time synchronization For details on it look at on the World Wide Web What is broadcast NTP NTP includes an o
3. 7 3 Advanced configuration This section is for people who want to modify the timezone and daylight savings rules This might become necessary if the rules are changed in your region Not that uncommon unfortunately I have coded all the rules that I could find and I think that they are correct The timezones and descriptions are held in the K9 ini file in your Windows directory The section Zones holds the timezones These are held as descriptive string nnn where nnn is the number of minutes west of GMT UTC The descriptive string is purely descriptive it has no other significance The section Rules holds the daylight savings rules These are held as descriptive string s sssseeeee where s s s s sis the rule that dictates when daylight savings time starts and e e e e e when it ends The five numbers in each section have the following meaning The first number can have the following values 0 the second number is the day of the month e g 25th 1 4 means the 1st 4th weekday of the month 5 means the last weekday however many there are The second is either the day of the month or the weekday where 0 Sunday 1 Monday etc The third number is the month 0 January The fourth is the hour of day the change is made local standard time The fifth is the number of minutes added to local standard time to get local daylight time If the start of daylight savings time is after the end as it is in the Australia the time daylight savings i
4. Time Synchronisation page 18 of 18 K9 Registration Form For UK customers UK VAT Value Added Tax at 20 applies to sales to UK customers The following prices are exclusive of VAT please add 20 to the final total Quantity Please indicate the number of computers on which K9 is installed and calculate the correct price 1 computer Computer at 6 25 plus VAT each 2 to 9 computers OS Computers at 3 75 plus VAT each 10 to 24 computers AS Computers at 2 50 plus VAT each 25 to 49 computers ON Computers at 1 88 plus VAT each 50 to 99 computers q Computers at 1 25 plus VAT each 100 to 199 computers AS Computers at 0 94 plus VAT each 200 computers AS Computers at 0 78 plus VAT each Corporate License Any number of copies for your whole company organisation 1250 plus VAT Source license The source of K9 is available for 1250 plus VAT please note that you are still required to pay the appropriate registration fee to run K9 or software derived from the source Please provide the following information when registering Full Name Name of company Your Address E Mail Address Windows Version K9 version Where did you obtain K9 Please send e mail regarding K9 to support mingham smith com Visit the K9 Home Page http www mingham smith com k9 htm Visit the Tardis Home Page http www mingham smith com tardis htm Copyright O H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015
5. this at the same time as K9 K9 will then just use this file and no further configuration is required When K9 is first run the K9 ini file automatically created is almost certainly incorrect for your site By default it is configured to GMT with no daylight savings To make sure that K9 understands the time broadcasts correctly the K9 ini file must be modified so the zone and rule entries in the K9 section match your locality The values assigned to zone and rule must each match an entry in the Zones and Rules sections Note remember to remove the value part of the entry E g If Zones contains an entry Mysite 300 then the K9 section must have zone Mysite NOT zone Mysite 300 This is an easy mistake to make when cutting and pasting entries into the K9 section You can add or delete entries from the Zones and Rules section if you wish as long as the rules that you use are still present 7 1 1 Timezone A representative sample of cities is shown for each timezone to help you decide which one you are in if you don t know Note Any TZ environment variable is completely ignored by K9 7 1 2 Daylight savings time rule K9 will automatically switch from summer to winter time and back again at the correct times each year Select which daylight savings rule applies for your time zone Almost every country does things differently Copyright O H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 11 of 18 The followi
6. 931 don t give an error about multicasts when started on a PC with dialup networking that is inactive 3 2 Changes 1 2 gt 1 3 e K9 Supports Multicasts in addition to broadcasts e KONT attempts to adjust the clock frequency as long as the time error is less than 2 seconds Given a stable time source this means that K9 should seldom have to cause the clock to jump e K9NT tested on release version of Windows 2000 33 Changes 1 0 gt 1 2 e K9 will lock to a server and ignore broadcasts from other servers unless it either sees a better one or the original server stop broadcasting for more than 10 minutes e K9 now supports Linux Copyright H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 5 of 18 Thanks I would like to thank Mark Symons who helped enormously in the development of K9 Copyright O H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 6 of 18 4 Installation for Windows NT and Later The Windows NT and later version of K9 K9NT exe is a Windows service so it has to be installed as follows 1 Log into your system as a user with administrative privileges 2 Decide which directory you are going to put the K9nt exe in and move it there A good choice is the SYSTEM32 directory which is where many other services live Using the Security Permissions menu option in the File Manager ensure that the SYSTEM user has read permission for the file Install K9nt exe as a se
7. K9 Time Synchronisation page 1 of 18 Copyright O H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 2 of 18 1 Contents 17 Contents it lo a dadas 2 PEE E ENE Te 3 A NT 4 ZT Changes 1 3 A iian dates Pel ee cen svete A ates Qecuee abl A KEA A 4 3 2 Changes 1 2 Tuc deed tated te teases el aa A enn ev at EER 4 3 33 Changes 1 0 gt Ti tdi ieee aaa de 5 4 Installation for Windows NT 2000 XP 2003B ooooocococococococcccconcccccccnnnnnnnnnonnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnrnnnnnnnnnnnnnns 6 4 1 Installation Problems coca id eee ee 6 4 2 Deinstalling or Moving K9INT EXB ooocoocccncccccccconononccnnconnnnncconconnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnan cr anne rn ran rnnnnnn cnn 6 439 Troubleshootnd ivi o aa 6 4 3 1 Errors Starting KIN erre EAE aid 6 4 3 2 Running in debug MOdE cccccccnococcccconononcccnnnnnonnncnncnnnno nn nn ncnnnn nn cnn rra nn nnnrn nr rana nnncanrnnnnnn 7 5 Installation for Windows 95 98 ME oooooococccnncccccccccnconnnnnnnnnnnnoncnnnnnnnnnnncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnininnninnns 8 5 1 Command line options is e eier caecuies shageasdbnscaaadeabiee adedecdseabessavacad Sanne 8 6 Installation for Windows Mobile 2003 cccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecccaeaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetteeeeeeenenneaas 9 7 Installation for Windows 3 1 ceeeeceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeteseeeeecsenineneeeeeeeeees 10 LAL TUMEZONS COMQUPATIONS ica an Detiene 10 7 1 1 MME Oe E E 10 7 1 2 Daylight savings time rUl8 oooo
8. Sapporo Seoul Yakutsk 540 GMT 9 30 Adelaide Central Australia Darwin 570 T 10 00 Brisbane Melbourne Sydney Guam Port Moresby Vladivostok West Pacific Hobart 600 T 11 00 Magadan Soloman Is New Caledonia Central Pacific 660 12 00 Fiji Kamchatka Marshall Is Wellington Auckland New Zealand 720 0 0000 6040910 US Canada Mexico 1 0 3 1 60 50910 Europe 5 0216050810 Egypt 0 1 4 1 Libya 0 1 3 1 China 2 0 3 1 Tran 5 0216030810 Korea 2 0 4 1 60 2 Russia 5 0226050820 K9 Zone GMT 8 00 Pacific Time US amp Canada San Francisco LA Tijuana Rule US Canada Mexico The following example file is a minimal version configured for the US Eastern Time All unused entries have been deleted Zones GMT 5 00 Eastern Time US Canada Bogota Lima Indiana East 300 Rules US Canada Mexico 1 0316050910 K9 Zone GMT 5 00 Eastern Time US amp Canada Bogota Lima Indiana East Rule US Canada Mexico Now you can just run 1t Run K931 exe and it will quietly operate in the background with no fuss Pop it into your startup folder so that it runs when you start your system and forget it But don t forget to register Copyright O H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 12 of 18 7 2 Command line options b Make a chirp noise when broadcast are received d Show some debug info 0 Run until the first broadcast is received then quit
9. am smith com 3 By Credit Card We have arrangements with US distrbutor mycommerce com who provide on line credit card registration for K9 To register click on this link https shopper mycommerce com checkout product 2917 2 Invoices If your company requires an invoice before sending payment please e mail us at support mingham smith com_or post your purchase order to the above address Charges for registering your use of K9 are based on the number of computers on which it is installed and are detailed on the registration forms which customers are requested to complete Prices are quoted in US dollars EUROS and Sterling Customers outside the US or European Union are requested to convert the US dollar prices to the equivalent amount in their local currency Please note that receipts are normally sent via e mail If you require a receipt to be sent by post or a license to be issued please request this when registering 4 Our Company Details HC Mingham Smith Limited Registered in England No 3676999 Registered Office TSB House 39A Peach Street Wokingham Berks RG40 1XJ VAT Registration Number 642 4733 43 Copyright O H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 16 of 18 K9 Registration Form For customers outside the European Union UK VAT Value Added Tax does not apply to customers outside the European Union The following prices are given in US Non US customers are invited to convert th
10. ceives a broadcast it will tell you If you have received no broadcasts within an hour or so then they probably aren t available NTP time broadcasts are usually approximately every minute If you find that broadcasts are not available you can ask your IT support people if they can provide them If not then use Tardis in broadcast server mode Tardis will broadcast the time of the PC on which it is run to all the other PCs on the same subnet K9 running on other machines will see this and synchronise to it While it is possible to run a copy of K9 as a client and Tardis as a server on the same machine this is a BAD IDEA The server will broadcast the time and the client will receive it and fix the time and will always get a correction because they are running on the same machine The local clock will get further and further away from the correct time and will take all the other clients with it because it is broadcasting all the time K9 may be used with Tardis or the official Linux NTP software Tardis can be used to get the time from a timeserver and then redistribute it to your ocal network using broadcasts 3 1 Changes 1 3 gt 1 4 e K9nt has some slight tweaks to slightly improve accuracy It has been tested on Windows XP and works fine as long as the windows time service is stopped e K9nt now has a description when the list of services is viewed e K995 has new a I r options to allow it to run as a service and invisibly e K995 and K
11. e following prices to their local currency Quantity Please indicate the number of computers on which K9 is installed and calculate the correct price 1 computer computer at 10 each 2 to 9 computers computers at 6 each 10 to 24 computers computers at 4 each 25 to 49 computers CO computers at 3 each 50 to 99 computers computers at 2 each 100 to 199 computers computers at 1 5 each 200 computers computers at 1 25 each Corporate License Any number of copies for your whole company organisation 2000 Source license The source of K9 is available for 200 please note that you are still required to pay the appropriate registration fee to run K9 or software derived from the source Please provide the following information when registering Full Name Name of company Your Address E Mail Address Windows Version K9 version Where did you obtain K9 Please send e mail regarding K9 to support mingham smith com Visit the K9 Home Page http www mingham smith com k9 htm Visit the Tardis Home Page http www mingham smith com tardis htm Copyright O H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 17 of 18 K9 Registration Form For customers in the European Union but not in the UK Customers in the European Union who use the software for business purposes are responsible for paying VAT at the appropriate rate in their home country Customer
12. e the K9nt EXE 3 If you want to move K9nt EXE to a new location you must move the file then type K9nt add 4 This informs the Service Manager and Event Logger of the new location of the program 4 3 Troubleshooting This lists some of the problems which you may have in K9nt and describes how to overcome them 4 3 1 Errors Starting K9nt When starting the K9nt service you may see one of the following error messages Copyright O H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 7 of 18 Could not start K9 time synchronization service on yourmachine Error 0002 The system cannot find the file specified The Service Manager could not locate K9nt EXE This probably means it has been moved or has not been installed correctly Remove and reinstall K9nt see section above for details Could not start K9 time synchronization service on yourmachine Error 0005 Access is denied K9nt EXE is inaccessible to the SYSTEM user By default the Service Manager starts the process running under a user ID of SYSTEM The executable file for the service must be readable by this user 4 3 2 Running in debug mode To make testing and debugging easier you can run K9nt in debug mode like so K9nt debug This should run K9nt as a console application log information and debugging are shown on the screen Make sure that you shut down the service first if it is running because you can t run k9 twice at the same time on the same computer
13. ere are no disabled features If you continue to use it after evaluating it please send the appropriate amount by post to H C Mingham Smith Ltd 33 Arthur Rd Wokingham Berkshire RG41 2SS England A cheque made payable to H C Mingham Smith Ltd would be acceptable Pricing details are at the back of this manual Copyright O H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 4 of 18 3 Introduction K9 is a small utility that is used to make sure that the clock on your PC is synchronised with the others on your LAN It does this by listening for NTP time broadcasts on your LAN If your LAN doesn t have NTP time broadcasts our Tardis 2000 product can provide them K9 is a companion program to Tardis 2000 If you use Tardis 2000 as a client listening for broadcast NTP messages then you can use K9 instead K9 does not require Tardis 2000 to be present K9 supports Windows 95 98 ME K995 exe Windows 3 1 K931 exe Windows NT and later K9nt exe Windows Mobile 2003 k9ce and Linux k9linux The NT anf later version is a service The linux version is provided as source K9 has no user interface none is required because there is no configuration K9 uses a small amount of memory because it doesn t need all the code to handle user interfaces If you don t know if NTP time broadcasts are available on your network run K995 exe or K931 exe with the d command line option or K9NT exe with the debug option When K9 re
14. ng example file is configured for the US Pacific Time Zones GMT Greenwich Mean Time London Edinburgh Dublin Casablanca Monrovia 0 GMT 1 00 Azores Cape Verde Is 60 GMT 2 00 Mid Atlantic 120 GMT 3 00 Buenos Aires Rio de Janiero E South America 180 GMT 3 30 Newfoundland 210 GMT 4 00 Atlantic Time Canada Caracas La Paz 240 GMT 5 00 Eastern Time US Canada Bogota Lima Indiana East 300 GMT 6 00 Central Time US Canada Mexico City Tegucigalpa Saskatchewan 360 GMT 7 00 Mountain Time US Canada Arizona 420 GMT 8 00 Pacific Time US Canada San Francisco LA Tijuana 480 GMT 9 00 Alaska 540 GMT 10 00 Hawaii 600 GMT 11 00 Midway Island Samoa 660 GMT 12 00 Enewetak Kwajalein Dateline 720 GMT 1 00 Paris Berlin Madrid Stockholm Rome W Europe 60 GMT 2 00 Athens Helsinki Istanbul E Europe Harare Pretoria South Africa Israel 120 GMT 3 00 Baghdad Kuwait Nairobi Riyadh Saudi Moscow St Petersburg 180 GMT 3 30 Tehran Iran 210 GMT 4 00 Abu Dhabi Muscat Tbilisi Kazan Volgograd Arabia 240 GMT 4 30 Kabul Afghanistan 270 GMT 5 00 Islamabad Karachi Sverdlovsk Tashkent West Asia 300 GMT 5 30 Bombay Calcutta Madras New Delhi Colombo India 330 GMT 6 00 Alma Ata Dhaka Central Asia 360 GMT 7 00 Bangkok Jakarta Hanoi Bangkok 420 GMT 8 00 Beijing Chongging Urumqi Hong Kong Perth Singapore 480 GMT 9 00 Tokyo Osaka
15. noocccnnnnnnocccccccnonancccncnnnnnnnoncnnnnoncnnnn nono ncnnnnnnnnnnncnnnnnnnns 10 7 2 Command line OPtiONS ooccccconnnnnnnnnnononcncccconnnnnnnncncnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnrnnnnannnnnnncnnnnnnns 12 7 3 Advanced configurator siaaa aa AEE N AEA AANEEN AEEA 12 e Installationitor LINUX ani esea laa 13 8 1 Command line options meine a aea aana aa R ee e a a ea a eai eaea aaa eaea EEk 13 9 Frequently asked QUEStiONS coccccccccccnninnnnnonononncnccconnnnncnnnncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 14 10 Registering and Paying for KO cooocccccococccccccononncnnconononcnnnnonnnnnn nn naar aS aaa STe ae 15 Copyright H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 3 of 18 2 Shareware Copyright Notice 1997 2015 H C Mingham Smith Ltd The author THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL INCIDENTAL INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE K9 is Shareware This is a complete working version There are no annoying reminder screens about what it costs and th
16. ption to broadcast a time signal that other computers on the same LAN can listen for My LAN has no broadcast NTP how do I set it up To do the job properly you will need to get a copy of XNTP this is an implementation of NTP that supports many machine types mostly Unix machines although there is a port to NT See the NTP home web site Tardis will also run in a timeserver mode where it will broadcast the time from the PC on which it is run I ran it and nothing happened It is running as a hidden window It can be shut down from the close program box that is shown when you hit CTRL ALT DEL Why are only some of the PCs being updated Time broadcasts are limited to the local subnet make sure that there is a time source on all the required subnets It may be possible to use Multicasts if your timeserver and your network support it Copyright H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 15 of 18 10 Registering and Paying for K9 The following page details the volume based charges for K9 and incorporates a registration form There are three ways to pay for registration 1 By cheque payable to H C Mingham Smith Please post to the following address H C Mingham Smith 33 Arthur Rd Wokingham Berkshire RG41 2SS England 2 By Bank Transfer If you would prefer to pay by this method please contact me on the following e mail address to request bank account details E mail address support mingh
17. rvice by running the program from the Windows command line specifying the add flag NOTE it is vital that you execute this command specifying the copy of K9NT EXE which you placed in SYSTEM32 directory and not using some other copy which you plan subsequently to delete For instance K9nt add The program will register itself and its location with the Service Manager and will report success or failure In the case of failure see the section on Installation Problems below To verify that the installation has succeeded start the Windows Services Control Panel The resulting dialog should list K9 as one of the installed services 4 1 Installation Problems Message Meaning The system says that K9nt EXE is not a Windows This is probably because you are trying to run an NT program executable for the wrong sort of processor or the file is damaged This function is only valid in Win32 mode 0x78 You aren t running the correct version of Windows Failed to create service This error message occurs if you type try to install K9nt when it is already installed 4 2 Deinstalling or moving K9NT exe This section describes what to do if you want to remove K9nt from your computer or if you want to move the program to a new location 1 Atthe Windows command line run K9nt with the remove option K9nt remove This will remove K9nt from the Service Manager s list of services 2 If you are deinstalling the K9nt service simply delet
18. s active is from the start date to the end of the year and from the beginning of the year to the end date Example The entry US Canada Mexico 1 0 3 1 60 50910 means Start of daylight time 1st Sunday in April at la m 1 hour ahead End of daylight time Last Sunday in October at 1a m 0 hours ahead Copyright O H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 13 of 18 8 Installation for Linux Just run it It is so simple that there is no installation or configuration required Run k9 inux and it will quietly operate in the background with no fuss K9linux must be run as root to allow it to set the clock This can either be achieved by being run from a command line by a user logged on as root or by setting k9linux as setuid root This allows anyone to run it But it will run as if root started it This is done as follows chown root k9linux chmod u s k9linux Add it into a script in your etc rc d rc2 d directory so that it runs when you start your system and forget it But don t forget to register If the k9linux binary doesn t work on your system you may have to compile the source k9linux c Either type make k9linux or cc k9linux c o k9linux 8 1 Command line options b Make a noise when broadcasts are received d Show some debug info 0 Run until the first broadcast is received then quit Copyright O H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 14 of 18 gt O 0 Pe Pe
19. s registering their own personal use should pay VAT at the UK rate of 20 to HC Mingham Smith Limited The following prices are in EUROS and are exclusive of VAT Prices may be converted to the customer s home currency if preferred Quantity Please indicate the number of computers on which K9 is installed and calculate the correct price 1 computer Computer at 11 50 plus VAT each 2 to 9 computers _ Computers at 7 plus VAT each 10 to 24 computers o Computers at 4 75 plus VAT each 25 to 49 computers Computers at 3 5 plus VAT each 50 to 99 computers IS Computers at 2 5 plus VAT each 100 to 199 computers OS Computers at 1 75 plus VAT each 200 computers O Computers at 1 5 plus VAT each Corporate License Any number of copies for your whole company organisation 2300 plus VAT Source license The source of K9 is available for 2300 plus VAT please note that you are still required to pay the appropriate registration fee to run K9 or software derived from the source Please provide the following information when registering Full Name Name of company Your Address E Mail Address Windows Version K9 version Where did you obtain K9 Please send e mail regarding K9 to support mingham smith com Visit the K9 Home Page http Avwww mingham smith com k9 htm Visit the Tardis Home Page http www mingham smith com tardis htm Copyright H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9
20. the default application install directory Select yes If you have Windows Mobile 2003 Second edition you may get a message saying that the program may not display properly This can be safely ignored Select start on the PDA K9 will appear under Programs K9 has no user interface none is required because there is no configuration When you run it you will see NOTHING Do not worry this is normal K9 will run in the background listening for NTP time broadcasts and quietly doing its job If you try and run it when it is already running you should get a warning The only way to stop it running is a soft reset K9 does not appear on the task list Copyright H C Mingham Smith Ltd 1994 2015 K9 Time Synchronisation page 10 of 18 7 Installation for Windows 3 1 7 1 Timezone configuration Unlike later versions of Window Windows 3 1 does not have support for timezones built in PCs running Windows store the local time in CMOS NTP broadcasts are in UTC time This means that extra information is required so that K9 can correctly convert from UTC to local time and also take into account daylight savings time K9 on windows 3 1 uses a K9 ini file in the Windows directory to provide the extra information The K9 ini file is automatically created the first time that K931 is run if it is not already present When deploying K9 across many machines it is a good idea to produce a K9 ini file for your locality first and install
Download Pdf Manuals
Related Search