Tardis V3.0 Release Notes
26 November 1995

What does it do?

Tardis is a Windows 3.1x program that synchronises your PC's clock to a
server's. It is used where your PC is connected to a remote machine by
TCP/IP, SLIP, or PPP.  A typical use would be to synchronise the clock on
starting a SLIP/PPP connection to an Internet provider (like demon). 
Another would be to have it running all the time in a LAN environment
correcting the clock once an hour. 

Installation

You should have already unpacked the .zip file to have read this so I
assume that bit went OK. 

Run tardis.exe!  ctl3d.dll should be in the same directory or if you
already have it on your system you can probably throw it away. 

If your connection is via SLIP or PPP you will need to start that first of
course otherwise you will get the dreaded 'winsock.dll not found' message. 
Trumpet winsock allows programs to be started in its login.cmd script. 
Tardis would be an obvious choice to put in here.  This is the end of my
login .cmd

#
# jump into slip mode
#
output SLIP\13
online
exec "C:\tardis\tardis.exe"

For those that have never heard of it trumpet winsock is an excellent
winsock implementation that supports SLIP.  Tardis was developed using
this winsock implementation. 

Changes since version 2.0a

Major upgrade
Added SNTP and UDP Time protocols
Improved status messages
Rearranged and improved the dialog to look more like tardis 95.
Extended the help.
Reworked the way time is set.
Added a  russian daylight savings rule.

Changes since version 2.0

Bug fixes.
Addresses expressed as numbers weren't done correctly.
The date wasn't being set because tardis was trying to set the time to 94AD instead of 1994AD.
You can vary the startup pause by editting the tardis.ini and changing the Pause=5 line.
Connections to machines that are down should timeout better now.
There is a problem with icons dissappearing with certain badly behaved applications.  This can't really be fixed without losing the nice 3d look.  Tardis is no longer badly behaved itself.
Tardis doesn't complain about other instances anymore if you try to run more than one.  It now finds the previous instance and brings it to the top.
A list of servers on the internet is included in the zip file