Setting Win32 System Clock Using SNTP (Python recipe) by Robin Becker Simon Foster's recipe "Simple (very) SNTP client" (see http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/117211) inspired me to get SNTP to do something useful when our office moved to an ISP that didn't do client 37 time setting. This recipe uses SNTP to get an estimate of the time offset and uses Thomas Heller's wonderfu