What's new in Tardis 2000 1.6
Mar 27, 2010
- Improved clock slewing algorithm, should adjust faster and lock better to correct frequency
- Tardis now provides options when the default Windows Time service is active.
- Fix to problem with E-mail alerts on service version
- Fix to problem with syslog logging
- New option to only serve time when synchronized
- Fix to problem where broadcasts prevented by error 10013 (found on server 2003)
- Service control panel now warns if Windows Time Service Active
- New install program
- Updated manual and help with XP service pack 2 information
- Changed default server list to use ntp.org's random pool of servers
New in Tardis 2000 1.5 (Mar 27, 2010)
- Added Alerts
- Added option to always start at top of server list
- Added support for more radio clocks
- Added logging to syslog and improved logging options
- fix to make NTP response NTP version same as request
- Updated server list
- fix to prevent clock frequency running wild when tardis fed bad timestamps
- fix for crash when server returns a ridiculous time
- limit the poll frequency to 10 minutes minimum when automatically adjusting
New in Tardis 2000 1.4 (Mar 27, 2010)
- New ICMP protocol that can synchronize to a machine that has no time server. (Uses low level messages to synchronize to the TCP/IP drivers)
- Clock frequency adjustment for the service version to allow the clock to be adjusted without stepping.
- Windows XP look and feel on XP.
- More hardware clock support
- Generate debug info button
- Allow COM ports greater than 4 for serial clocks.
- Fixed bug with hours being incorrectly calculated for GPZDA messages on the hour, a compiler bug.
- Removed shutdown error messages that worried people in 868 and 867 servers.
- fix for problem with recvfrom getting WSACONNRESET in SNTP, 868 and 867 servers that killed the servers
- Improved NT/2000/XP service deinstallation. i.e. made it work.
- added service description
- tardis service control panel resides in date/time section on XP
- Fix for tardis service hanging when serial clock configured with wrong COM port.
New in Tardis 2000 1.3 (Mar 27, 2010)
- Added support for multicasts including time-to-live settings
- We now wait at the end of the list before trying the list of servers again if they all fail
- Added warning to option that changes server on success because some people were setting it.
- Fixed message that transposed longitude and latitude in nmea message.
- Tweaked the broadcast frequency to conform to NTP spec. more closely.
- include server name in messages when using a proxy
- increase number of allowed broadcast addresses
- increased range of time setting frequency and made output of remaining time nicer ( e.g. 1 day instead of 1440 minutes)
- In Tardis 2000 NT the start/stop service button changes if the service is started/stopped by the service manager
- There is now a default button to restore the default server list
- Removed some pesky debug messages that were output to the eventlog
- Workaround for intermittent problem where broadcasts stopped when using SNTP client at the same time
- Fix for NMEA devices that don't output the time every second
- Fix for large request messages from RFC868/udp clients that killed the RFC858/udp server
New in Tardis 2000 1.2 (Mar 27, 2010)
- Added Galleon Radio clock support
- Fix for bug that caused error of one day in March 2000
- Fix for large HTTP headers that caused crash
- Improved NMEA support, more messages supported, older NMEA version supported, fix for 3 digit years
- RFC867 server message includes GPS location information (if available)
- Improved sanity checks on dates to stop crashes with mad dates
- Fixed problem where Tardis deinstalls itself on Win2000 (actually a side effect of trying to install itself twice)
New in Tardis 2000 1.1 (Mar 27, 2010)
- Deleting all the servers requires a confirmation
- NTP stratum can now be set
- Extra info in NTP messages to increase compatibility with 'real' NTP. (refid, poll period)
- Fix to problem with 'rasman.dll' on NT
- GPS NMEA improved to show position and time.
- Statistics now update automatically when time is set (very useful on NT version)
- New option to allow large corrections to occur up to the maximum allowed
- Sub 1 second maximum correction now supported
- Automatic adjustment of poll period
- Broadcasts corrections now obey the 'how often the time is set' rules.
- NTP broadcasts from tardis should work with xntp now