I need to import the official time in Sydney Australia into my IT system. How do I do it? What is the source?

Question

Because it does not guarantee the accuracy of the time stamp, I cannot use the Wiki Website.

The legal requirement is that, at all times, my IT System will not be more than 1 second off Australian Eastern Standard Time (= UTC + 10 hours).

Answer 1

wow. where do you work that requires not more than 1 sec differnece?  That's full on. We're always changing our clocks to get outta here earlier.

Sydney = GMT+10hours (what's UTC stand for?? GMT = Greenwich Mean Time)

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/

go to that link, it will give you GMT and the current time of whatever zone you are in.

Answer 2

Do you mean setting the internal clock on your PC?  If so, and you're using Windows XP, just double-click on the time at the bottom right hand side of screen, ensure the time is correct, select Time Zone, and select Sydney.  If that's not what you mean, then I can't offer any other help.

Answer 3

You could use the Network Time Protocol (RFC-1305)

http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm

Mine is set to use time.windows.com but only once a week.

This is set using "internet time" on date & Time Properties.