IP address for NTP time server?

[#1]

You know that the router can get its time from an internet NTP time server and some allow you to put in a lettered name like "pool.ntp.org", alternatively they default to an in-built look up IP or say "use this IP..." and have a box for the numbers.
So, can anyone give me an actual IP of a known reliable time server, probably UK/Europe based?
thanks

[#2]

212.159.6.10?

[#3]

A quick search reveals <a href="http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?topic=5679.msg46179">this post</a> with a useful list. Try them as well.

[#4]

ntp.plus.net <=> 212.159.6.10
B.

[#5]

Worth noting that there are problems with the Thomson 585v7 routers when trying to use NTP when it's British Summer Time. The router often 'forgets' this setting and falls an hour behind what it should.

[#6]

ok, and sort of in reverse order, as they say!
Bob, ta, but Thomson not involved.
the 212.159.6.10,  isn't that our backup DNS? though in fact it came in as an auto-found  primary on my router and I found it slow and fixed the DNS on the 212.159.13--- pair.
the list, from 2003! wow but I did limit my search to 777 days which allowed me 2 years   Of course things like that probably don't change though I'm not sure, especially  when the note at the bottom says "please use DNS/subject to change/use ntp.xxxxxx". I suspect that's really for people putting the NTP setup into a script running a server or Linux box.

[#7]

You could use

Quote

server ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk server ntp.cs.strath.ac.uk server ntps1-0.cs.tu-berlin.de

I do.

[#8]

"server ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk
server ntp.cs.strath.ac.uk"
<yawn>, sorry, login here before I log off upstairs!
well I'd want to use the IP and the 130.88.202.49for ntp2a.mcc  still shows up as among the uni's batch, so try that after breakfast. cheers

[#9]

I use a small program called Automachron.  If I change the time server to ntp.plus.net, I then have to enter a protocol like "Time/TCP" and  "Port 123" or "SNTP v1" and "Port 123" etc.  So what would I use for Plusnet ?

[#10]

Why?

[#11]

The same question occurred to me. With recent versions of Windows I don't see the point of such programs.

[#12]

I am obviously missing something about XP which I did not know  I have used Autmachron since the old W98 days.  Is there something in XP that makes this redundant and which I should know about ?
I use Automachron to automaticaly update / synchronise the time on the laptop.  Maybe XP does this automatically but I was not aware of it.

[#13]

easy really 1) control panel  2) Date and time  3)internet time tab, thats all   

[#14]

Well I am jiggered !  I id not know that.  Thanks for the info.
I suppose that the difference between Automachron and the XP version is that with Automachron, you can set the update / synchronisation time to suit yourself - every minute if necessary !! (hardly),  whereas with XP it is only once a wek.

[#15]

but it has a button to do an instantaneous update