This is my old, but still valid, blog post on this topic: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2010/01/29/a-brief-history-of-time-ok-ok-let-s-go-with-quot-an-introduction-to-the-windows-time-service-quot.aspx
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jimmy Tran Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 9:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] can't set NTP time source on PDC Hi Guys, I’ve been having trouble changing the Windows time source to any outside NTP server. It is current set to local but the time is off so I wanted to set it to an outside time source. When I run “w32tm /query /status”, it shows (source name: “LOCL”). So now I run “w32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual /manualpeerlist:pool.ntp.org /reliable:yes /update” and it completes successfully. I’ll restart the time service and do a query again but it still shows LOCL. I am doing this on the PDC on the domain. I’ve tried a reboot and even unregistering w32tm but nothing helps. I’m out of ideas. Thanks, JT
