Originally Posted by BigLar

It's not a real problem. There are a number of ways of getting the desired result, which is to sync up the time on the remote computer (which cannot connect to the NIST server or any other time service) but what I'm looking for is a simple way to run a script/program on the local computer to set the time based on the local time. Not a big deal, as the remote time doesn't drift that much.

Originally Posted by KRSW

If you need to keep time sync'd and there isn't internet, another option is to buy an ancient Garmin GPS off eBay that supports NMEA and use GPS to sync the clock. I believe either Tardis or Dimension4 programs will read the GPS and go from there. We used to use this method with satellite TV uplink/production trucks. I still have an old Garmin GP48 doing exactly this out in the field.

Originally Posted by BigLar

II was hoping someone else would know of the way without requiring buying/developing more hardware/software, etc.