"An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with time.windows.com"

[Unknown]

Change your time server to tock.usno.navy.mil

As the discussion went on with some inconsistency in the outcome of
connecting to time servers, the link:

http://tf.nist.gov/service/pdf/win2000xp.pdf

may provide some additional ideas and thoughts like:
- Background information with how it works on Windows (or not)
- A table with more NIST ITS Server Addresses
- Configuring Windows to use ITS
- Troubleshooting hints, with a special note with regard to Dell
computers.

Some of the information given in the article will apply for other time
servers than NIST.

Regards,
Ka2H

 

[Guest]

It's an editable drop-down. Just type in the server name tock.usno.navy.mil.

 

[M.I.5¾]

I'll make you a bet the radio signal is wrong! Appears many of the TV
stations in my area don't keep accurate time either.

With many radio stations now using digital links to transmit the content to
the transmitters, the signal is nowehere near broadcast in real time
anymore. The problem is further exacerbated for users of digital (DAB)
radios where there is a processing delay at the transmitter, and a further
delay in the receiver itself. Turn on two DAB radios for an interesting
echo effect.

 

[Avie]

Hey guys,

I know this thread is OLD as hell, but I have this issue. I've been trying
to reconfig my time, tried to follow what you guys did, nothing. Used the
command prompt to do the whole w32tm /resync /rediscover, but it was telling
me the change was too big, or it just couldn't find any time to resync with.


SO, I set the time on the computer to todays exact time, tried it again, no
avail.

THEN, I read this
http://social.technet.microsoft.com.../thread/d9c65d89-4691-4212-8991-616f01183d70/
and at the bottom of this guys long-winded story (not like mine is.... ) he
said the time stopped working when Daylight savings kicked in.

So I turned off the Daylight savings option in the Adjust time & date (when
you right-click the time in the start bar) and turned that off (click on
change time zone and un-check box).

I finally got my VOILLA moment. Yay.

I thought I'd post this on here, as it's more than likely that someone else
will have this issue in the near future. Yay for windows.

And then... Maybe not. The time has jumped ahead 4 minutes faster than
usual, and the resync with internet time works now, but doesn't change the
time to the correct time.

Hmmm..

 

[John Wunderlich]

I finally got my VOILLA moment. Yay.

I thought I'd post this on here, as it's more than likely that
someone else will have this issue in the near future. Yay for
windows.

And then... Maybe not. The time has jumped ahead 4 minutes faster
than usual, and the resync with internet time works now, but
doesn't change the time to the correct time.

Hmmm..

Try reading the following KB Article:
"How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows XP"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314054>

Skip 1/3 down and start with the section:
"Configuring the Windows Time service to use an external time source"

Regarding the time being 4 minutes fast and not correcting, it is
possible that you have an XP machine that has been configured on a
Domain. If this is the case, the default value for
"MaxAllowedPhaseOffset" (see table at end of article) will be set to
300 ( 5 minutes) which means that if your time is off by less than this
5 minutes, windows will try to correct the time by adjusting (slowing
down) the system clock until the time is correct. This may take a few
hours to bring it to the correct time. It will not be an immediate
adjustment. Change this value to "1" if you desire an immediate
adjustment.

HTH,
John