Clock drift on Windows

Question

I\'ve developed a Windows service which tracks business events. It uses the Windows clock to timestamp events. However, the underlying clock can drift quite dramatically (e.

Answer 1

Clock drift may be a consequence of the temperature; maybe you could try to get temperature more constant - using better cooling perhaps? You're never going to loose drift totally, though.

Using an external clock (GPS receiver etc...), and a statistical method to relate CPU time to Absolute Time is what we use here to synch events in distributed systems.