Date and Time properties issue.

[Kaz Kylheku]

When I double click on the time in the Windows XP tray, the Date and
Time Properties dialog comes up. However, the ``Internet Time'' tab is
missing; there are only two tabs: Date & Time and Time Zone.

The machine is synchronizing its clock with some horribly inaccurate
time server, and because this dialog is missing, the synchronization
can't be turned off. I played with some registry settings, but they
didn't work.

Whenever I adjust the clock, within minutes, it jumps back to the
inexact time.

What can be done to bring back the missing dialog? Is there some
registry value?

 

[Guest]

Tell your network administrator to set the time on the
server. The dos command to do this is net time /setsntp:
(timeservername).

Brian

 

[Kaz Kylheku]

The machine is synchronizing its clock with some horribly inaccurate
time server, and because this dialog is missing, the synchronization
can't be turned off. I played with some registry settings, but they
didn't work.

That part I figured out; I stopped the time service.

What can be done to bring back the missing dialog? Is there some
registry value?

Found out that when you are on a domain, this part of the GUI just
goes away (as opposed to being disabled with an explanation!)

 

[Alex Nichol]

When I double click on the time in the Windows XP tray, the Date and
Time Properties dialog comes up. However, the ``Internet Time'' tab is
missing; there are only two tabs: Date & Time and Time Zone.

The machine is synchronizing its clock with some horribly inaccurate
time server, and because this dialog is missing, the synchronization
can't be turned off. I played with some registry settings, but they
didn't work.

If you are connected into a domain based network, the time setting is
taken over by the domain server - all you can then do is complain loudly
to the net administrator