Your FAQ on 'time synchronizing server and client machines' was a great help to me. Thanks. For my use I justed needed to get the time from a network computer and NetRemoteTOD did the trick. But in somecases, however, NetRemoteTOD could not get the server time because the server was busy. NetRemoteTOD timed out after about 5 seconds and returned no time at all. How can you decrease the timeout to say 1 second?