time.sleep(1) sometimes runs for 200 seconds under windows

[Roel Schroeven]

Dennis Lee Bieber schreef:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:44:49 -0600, Paul Probert <pprobert at wisc.edu>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> 
>> This is now our leading suspect. All the affected machines have 
>> "abouttime.exe" running as a service, something our sysadmin put in a 
>> few years ago. We are currently disabling this and now waiting for the 
>> proof.
> 
> 	Hmmm, I wonder how compatible that is with WinXP -- since XP already
> has an internet time synch built into the date/time preferences page
> (need admin privs to view).

It's easily disabled. I disable it and use NTP for Windows instead on 
machines I control since it works much better.

> 	Pre-XP may not have had such...

Windows 2000 had it too, but there was no GUI to configure it; you had 
to manually edit the registry.

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Roel Schroeven