Check out the command line option w32tm and start with a w32tm /monitor

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Sam Lai
Sent: Monday, 4 October 2010 10:52 AM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: [OT] Time sync on my domain

On 4 October 2010 10:25, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Folks, I just noticed that the time on all of the machines in my 
> domain are drifting forward. I've never configured any time services 
> on the domain, it's the default behaviour.
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> I *thought* that the Win3K domain controller automatically became the 
> time server in a domain and all of the other machines would sync to 
> it. That seems to be true, as all machines are wrong by the same amount.
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> I also *thought* that the domain controller would sync to an external 
> server, like time.windows.com, which I can see in the registry for the 
> W32Time service. But I guess it's not doing that.
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> I'm still web searching this subject and getting lots of confusing advice.
> Asking network admins, is there some simple trick I can pull to make 
> the domain controller sync to the external source?

Not daylight-savings related? Is the time on the DC the same as all other 
machines? If so, then they are syncing. The culprit is likely to either be a 
bad timezone setting.

Also, if the DC is running as a guest VM, you might want to check the host as 
well. Hyper-V has/had issues with the clock drifting under certain 
circumstances.

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> Cheers,
>
> Greg

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