NetChronometer is a small utility from Jeremy Kezer designed to synchronize your Mac's clock with a highly accurate date and time server, ensuring that your Mac's clock, which has a tendency to drift as time passes, will once again be accurate.
NetChronometer connects to a highly accurate time server (a number of servers are listed, or you can add your own) and within seconds will adjust your Mac's clock to that of the server's, even telling you by how many seconds your Mac's clock was off.
Users familiar with Mac OS 8.5 know that a similar feature is now built-in to the Date & Time control panel. In fact the only differences between NetChronometer and the Date & Time control panel under Mac OS 8.5 is its longer list of time servers, its information regarding how far off your Mac's clock was with the server's, and the fact that it doesn't consume memory when it's not running (although I doubt you'd disable the Date & Time control panel in order to squeeze a couple KB of RAM out of your system).
At $7, NetChronometer is fairly expensive for such a utility when you can simply turn on The Weather Channel or a similar resource and manually set your Mac to their accurate clock. However, it's convenient for any administrator who would like to have the clocks on a network of Macs synchronized, and who aren't running Keyserver or a similar utility that features server clock synchronization. If you're running Mac OS 8.5, skip right by NetChronometer -- this is another one of those convenient shareware utilities that Apple has finally built into the operating system. -MS
