- How to stop a time sync on Windows Server 2003
- Posted by wolf on April 3rd, 2008
We are runnning a Windows 2003 Server machine on which we have
switched off the time sync. The machine is also not running in a
domain and is not connected to the internet.
Even then the system time changes approx. every 2 to 3 days by about 1
minute.
How is this possible and how can I turn this off?
Thanks for any help!
Wolfgang
- Posted by Paul Weterings on April 3rd, 2008
What speed is this system moving at?
;-)
On a more serious note: doesn't the eventlog tell you anything?
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wolf wrote:
- Posted by wolf on April 4th, 2008
On 3 Apr., 21:19, Paul Weterings <Paul-nospam-@syncpuls-dot-com>
wrote:
Obviously it is running too slow (1 minute every 2-3 days)
No entries in the eventlog!
- Posted by Paul Weterings on April 4th, 2008
[kidding]
I was thinking near lightspeed, explaining the progress of 1 minute per day.
[/kidding]
I was wondering how you determined the change of 1 minute per 2 or 3
days, since this server appears not to sync up to anything and the
eventlog doesn't complain about a missing timesync (confirming the
above), would any difference in time compared to other (correctly
synced) systems not explain the difference because of hardware clock drift?
One (maybe not such a practical) way to test this would be to shut the
system off for a few days, and then compare the bios clock to a know
correct source.
Not much help I'm afraid...
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wolf wrote:
- Posted by Paul Weterings on April 4th, 2008
Come to think of it, could it be that this is the OS time syncing
against the Bios clock?
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Paul Weterings wrote:
- Posted by wolf on April 8th, 2008
On 4 Apr., 18:02, Paul Weterings <Paul-nospam-@syncpuls-dot-com>
wrote:
We are running our programs on that server and based on logfiles we
figured out that the time changes, so installed a program that checks
the time and tells us that the time is being synchronized every 2 to 3
days by 1 minute.
I think you are right that the OS time synchronizes with the bios
time. How can this be stopped? Or how can one sync that more often
that the time jumps are smaller?
