Cannot Synchroize Clock

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Jack Gillis

This afternoon, I tried to synchronize the clock on my desktop and my laptop
using time.windows.com as well as time.nist.gov. In both cases, I got a
message saying, " An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with
............." Could both servers be down at the same time or should I
look on my end for the problem?

Thank you
 
though these services do work sometimes ... windows is very poor when it
comes to connecting to them.. I too tried both those servers and they both
failed.

try putting in this address : bitsy.mit.edu .. I tried it twice and it
succedded each time

good luck
John
 
let it be known on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:33:28 -0400
"Jack Gillis" <[email protected]> scribed:

|This afternoon, I tried to synchronize the clock on my desktop and my laptop
|using time.windows.com as well as time.nist.gov. In both cases, I got a
|message saying, " An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with
|............" Could both servers be down at the same time or should I
|look on my end for the problem?
|
|Thank you
|
|--
|Jack Gillis
|
|

Jack,

Try one of the NIST Servers here:
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262680>

I have my clock automatically set daily with time-a.nist.gov and it works quite well.

HTH
 
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Jack Gillis
John Orion said:
though these services do work sometimes ... windows is very poor when it
comes to connecting to them.. I too tried both those servers and they both
failed.

try putting in this address : bitsy.mit.edu .. I tried it twice and it
succedded each time

good luck
John

Jack Gillis said:
This afternoon, I tried to synchronize the clock on my desktop and my
laptop using time.windows.com as well as time.nist.gov. In both cases, I
got a message saying, " An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing
with ............" Could both servers be down at the same time or
should I look on my end for the problem?

Thank you
Click to expand...

That worked like a charm.

Thank you.
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Jack Gillis
cf said:
let it be known on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:33:28 -0400
"Jack Gillis" <[email protected]> scribed:

|This afternoon, I tried to synchronize the clock on my desktop and my
laptop
|using time.windows.com as well as time.nist.gov. In both cases, I got a
|message saying, " An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with
|............" Could both servers be down at the same time or should I
|look on my end for the problem?
|
|Thank you
|
|--
|Jack Gillis
|
|

Jack,

Try one of the NIST Servers here:
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262680>

I have my clock automatically set daily with time-a.nist.gov and it works
quite well.

HTH
Click to expand...

Time-a.nist.gov works just fine.

Thank you.
 
I have had the same issue and also use McAfee. To answer your question you
have to enable or open port 123 (w32time) under "system services" when your
under program permissions or the area where you would modify which programs
have access to the internet.

Once you enable or open port 123 or under system services check "network
time protocol" and your computer will be able to update with windows time
server or any other server you may choose.

Also... If you use any other 3rd party firewalls you would also have to make
sure that the network time protocol (port 123) is enabled or granted to
access internet.

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