DST problems

[Guest]

Even though I applied KB 921883 daylight savings patches to all machines in
my network, I've got several that keep reverting back an hour.

There's nothing obvious in the event viewer for any of these machines, virus
software is up to date, all servers in sync with the correct time. What else
should I be looking at? This concerns me a great deal as it's the same
machines, and as far as I know there's no indication as to why their time
keeps changing back.

 

[John John]

People have been reporting the problem over the last few days but no
solid answers or fixes have yet come. If you are certain that all the
domain controllers are properly synchronized to the same authoritative
time source then you might want to try a different fix on the
workstation, just to eliminate patching errors. That failing you could
try to reconfigure the Time Service on the workstation.

To test and eliminate patching error you could try this:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/DaylightSavingNotice.asp?File=DaylightSavingFix.exe

I have tried and tested the patch on Windows NT/2000/XP and it have not
had problems with it. If the problem persists after you install the
patch try resetting the time service:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555440

You may need to issue the w32tm /unregister command twice for it to work
properly, you might get an error or deny message the first time:

net stop w32time
w32tm /unregister
w32tm /unregister
w32tm /register
net start w32time

Let us know your findings.

John

 

[Guest]

I went into the control panel under date/time, but there's not a "Internet
time server". Actually that's the first I've heard of this.

 

[John John]

Never mind the internet server part, the workstation are sychronizing
with the domain controllers. Try the reset part:

net stop w32time
w32tm /unregister
w32tm /unregister
w32tm /register
net start w32time

Let us know your findings.

John