Bet Angel clock is losing time?!

[shakespeare]

I've noticed over the past few days that some greyhound markets get suspended before my Guardian bots have greened up, even though they are programmed to green up several seconds before the official start time of the race. I thought maybe the races were starting a few seconds ahead of time. But I now have evidence that it's the clock on my Bet Angel that's slow.

Please see the attached screenshot. On the left you see a doggies race tonight and I've circled in red the time Bet Angel is showing me. On the right is the Date & Time website showing the time. It looks like the Bet Angel clock is running 14 seconds slow. This explains perfectly why my bots don't green out before the markets get suspended.

Can anyone help?

[shakespeare]

Actually I just realised that Bet Angel is getting the time from my PC and it's my PC clock that's running slow. So I'll have to find a way to correct that. I can't believe Microsoft are unable to keep a PC's clock running on time, even on Windows 10.

[Dallas]

Click on your PC clock to 'Change time and date' and on the internet time tab ensure its set to sync automatically or select a different server to sync it with.

[shakespeare]

Thanks, Dallas. My clock was set to synchronise with time.windows.com but for some reason the sync had been failing. I changed it to a different server and then back again to time.windows.com and it now seems to have synced correctly.

[foxwood]

If you're on Windows you can set up a Scheduled Task to automatically correct the clock on a PC or server as often as you want - create a new Scheduled Task and enter into the "Run" box ...

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c:\windows\system32\w32tm.exe /resync

then, on the Schedule tab, enter the times at which you want this to run.

I have this running every hour on all servers and non-network PC's and it works fine.

[shakespeare]

Thanks, will give that a try.

[gutuami]

if you have very high refresh rates and many charts then the clock from ladder or one click will update slower. nothing to do with pc time. it happens to me too.