Introduction

K9 is a small utility that is used to make sure that the clock on your PC 
is synchronised with the others on your LAN.  It does this by listening 
for NTP time broadcasts on your LAN.  If your LAN doesn't have NTP time 
broadcasts Tardis can provide them.

K9 is a companion program to Tardis (http://www.kaska.demon.co.uk).  
If you use Tardis with broadcast NTP then you can use K9 instead.  
K9 does not require Tardis to be present.  

There are K9 versions for Windows 95 (K995.exe), Windows 3.1 (K931.exe), and 
Windows NT (K9nt.exe).  The NT version is an NT service.

K9 has no user interface, none is required because there is 
no configuration.  When you run it you will see NOTHING.  It will 
appear on your task list but it has no visible windows.  Do not worry, 
this is normal.  K9 will run in the background listening for NTP time 
broadcasts and quietly doing its job.  

K9 uses a small amount of memory because it doesn't need all the code 
to handle user interfaces.

K9 requires you to have TCP/IP properly installed.

If you don't know if NTP time broadcasts are available on your 
network run K995.exe or K931.exe with the -d option.  When it 
receives a broadcast it will tell you. 

If you find that broadcasts are not available you can ask your 
IT support people if they can provide them.  If not, then use Tardis
in NTP broadcast server mode.  Tardis will broadcast the 
time of the PC on which it is run to all the other PCs on the same 
subnet.  K9 running on other machines will see this and synchronise 
to it.