Unitiserve clock update

Posted by: London Lad on 27 March 2016

Hi all,

 

Does the US update its own time settings from a time server ? Mine didn't last night.

Posted on: 27 March 2016 by GerryMcg

Mine has.

Posted on: 27 March 2016 by London Lad

Odd. Anyone know if there is a setting to turn on auto updating?

Posted on: 27 March 2016 by GerryMcg

Just thinking that I do not refer to the clock in the Unitiserve, therefore it is possible that it did not update, but was an hour fast yesterday.

Posted on: 27 March 2016 by London Lad

OK thanks. I'm sure someone will be along with a definitive answer in a moment :-)

Posted on: 28 March 2016 by Richard Morris

Mine didn't.

Posted on: 28 March 2016 by London Lad

I cant believe there isn't an option to turn it on as its an integral part of windows os

Posted on: 28 March 2016 by Timmo1341

Where is the US clock to be found?!

Posted on: 28 March 2016 by Richard Morris

System/System Settings/Date and time

Posted on: 28 March 2016 by blythe

Are you running the latest firmware? I believe there was an update for some Naim equipment which didn't update the time automatically.

Posted on: 28 March 2016 by Richard Morris

No idea about US firmware - System Status doesn't list it. 

Posted on: 28 March 2016 by David Hendon
blythe posted:

Are you running the latest firmware? I believe there was an update for some Naim equipment which didn't update the time automatically.

I'm pretty sure that the firmware update that sorted out daylight saving time issues was actually one of the recent streamer updates (and I think it was the UQ 2 that was the main issue). 

 

Posted on: 29 March 2016 by London Lad
blythe posted:

Are you running the latest firmware? I believe there was an update for some Naim equipment which didn't update the time automatically.

I am running 1.7b

Posted on: 29 March 2016 by Richard Morris
London Lad posted:
blythe posted:

Are you running the latest firmware? I believe there was an update for some Naim equipment which didn't update the time automatically.

I am running 1.7b

Me too if that is what 'overall version' means.

Posted on: 30 March 2016 by blythe

1.7b is the latest version. I suggest speaking directly to Naim.

Posted on: 30 March 2016 by London Lad

I did email and the reply I got was that it should update automatically but if it hasn't then update it manually.

I don't seem to do very well emailing Naim for definitive info nowadays. I'm a bit OCD and like to have things 'right' but I seem to always get answers like 'see which sound best' nowadays.

I assume there must be a time server setting  somewhere as the OS would need to know which time zone it was in.

Posted on: 30 March 2016 by David Hendon

I find myself wondering why I would care whether the clock in the US had updated or not, or even how I would know in normal use whether it had or not...,,

best

David

Posted on: 30 March 2016 by London Lad

I have a large rack mount NAS RAID installation which amongst other thing accepts backups from a number of local PCs, some remote servers and other devices including the US. To preserve bandwidth these backups and transfers are staggered throughout the night. An accurately set clock is therefore important to me.

 

 

Posted on: 30 March 2016 by David Hendon

Ok that's a good reason! And I suppose you can't just leave everything on GMT because some of the devices will show local time because they will have updated automatically. I suspect the reason why Naim can't be specific as to whether it should have updated ir not is because with complex networks whether your US will see a time server or not depends as much on your network configuration as on the US.

It seems to me that setting aside OCD considerations, just going into the US and checking/resetting the RTC is probably the pragmatic thing to do.

best

David

Posted on: 30 March 2016 by London Lad

Its no great guns but its supposed to do it and  I'd like mine to do it too :-)

Its easy to reset twice a year but every other device on my network seem able to contact its respective time server ok.

 

As I said, no great guns