domain clock synchronization

[Al Dugger]

We recently upgraded our office workstations from 98 to
XP. With the upgrade came automatic clock synchronization
from the network domain time server. We have an app that
uses the workstation clock to record time and date
activity in a database. We need to back date the
workstation to record the date gift certificates were
redeemed. How do we turn off the synchronization on the
workstation we are using while we enter the redeemed
certificates without disrupting the time server for the
entire network.

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

We recently upgraded our office workstations from 98 to
XP. With the upgrade came automatic clock synchronization
from the network domain time server. We have an app that
uses the workstation clock to record time and date
activity in a database. We need to back date the
workstation to record the date gift certificates were
redeemed. How do we turn off the synchronization on the
workstation we are using while we enter the redeemed
certificates without disrupting the time server for the
entire network.

You don't. If you workstation time skew becomes greater
than 5 minutes (in default AD config) then Kerberos, the
underlying authentication mechanism for the domain, breaks
for your workstation.

With that warning, you can stop the Windows Time service
in services.msc on the client machine and then remember to
restart it after you have finished doing what you need to do
with the time wrong on the client machine.