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I modified my "system registery" to hit the NIST site every couple of hours to keep my PC clock accurate to within fractions of a second. When out and about, I use the same site you do but, it does not always work behind firewalls, on filtered networks, at work, etc.
 
I have one of those radio-set atomic clocks--it updates itself like 4 times a day based on signals sent out by a government lab in CO (IIRC). There's many versions of these clocks, but I got a battery powered one from Radio Shack for less than $20....and I don't have to boot it up, to boot :)
 
There are so many programs for automatically setting your computer's clock that I haven't tried them all. The one I use is NetTime, available free from www.nettime.sourceforge.net

It compares a number of time sources so if one isn't running well at the moment that doesn't matter, you can set it to update your clock at any interval you want, and it's a small program, doesn't take up your system resources. I haven't tried them all so there might be others as good, but it's hard to imagine how one could be better.
 
I have a huge military wall clock that synchronizes automatically with the time signal in Colorado. I'm not all that concerned with the computer clock.
 
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