Re: [Quickfix-developers] System clock issues

[Ajay K. <Aja...@tr...>]

John,

 

A few options come to mind:

 

1)       As you noted, locking down the ability for regular users to
change the time on their box would address scenario #1

2)       You could run a time daemon like ntpd on the windows boxes and
make it sync every ~30 seconds, which would help with the scenario of a
large time drift due to hardware issues, but would do nothing to
alleviate problems due to user errors. I haven't typically seen ntpd
being run on user PCs, but then yours is not a normal situation... 

3)       Does the QuickFIX engine have to run on the user's windows box?
If it is possible for the Windows application to connect to a QuickFIX
engine running on a separate server, then I think that would insulate
you from the vagaries of users and windows. This may be the most user
proof option, but may also require your application to be re-coded and
hence may not be very viable in your situation

 

- Ajay

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