Re: Time Zone

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From: Alexander Suhovey (asuhovey_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 20:26:11 +0400

Hi Jerry,

The error is quite selfexplanatory. Make sure that time is actually
syncronized across your domain.
Commands to help you with this are as follows:

net time - shows local time
net time /domain - shows time on domain controller
net time /domain /set /y - syncronizes local time with domain controller
time.

What you should know is that internal Windows clock are in UTC. Time Zone
offset is being added right before showing time to user e.g. in tray. So if
you see the *same* time in tray of two computers with different time zones
you can say for sure that time is NOT syncronized between those two
computers. I don't know if all this is obviuos for you, I'm saying it just
because I found that this concept is not clesr clear for number of people I
have discussed it with...

For more info please refer to Windows Time Service White Paper:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/security/wintimeserv.asp

hth,
Al.

In news:OLk4KvVeEHA.3792@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
Jerry Fortenberry <jerryf@ripgriffin.com> wrote:
> We have one domain. The pc's are located from Arkansas to
> California.....spanning several time zones. Since we updated our
> server to Windows 2000, we get the following error when trying to
> access a share on a 2000 Pro or Wxp pc that has the time zone set to
> a time zone not the same as the server (domain controller).
> "This server's clock is not synchronized with the primary domain
> computer's clock."

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