Unable synch PC time for the last 8 hours

[Peter]

I get "an error occurred...blah blah" when I try to synch the PC clock with
either time.windows.com or time.nist.gov.
I've even put an exception in McAfee's Firewall Plus 8 System Services for
"Network Time Protocol - Port 123".
Anyone else finding this problem today?

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Ultimate fully updated
P4 D865GBFL HT @ 3.0ghz 4.0gb DDR 700gb HD
Sapphire Radeon X1650 Pro Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

 

[Night Keeper]

Make sure your time and date are correctly set in Windows. In XP if the date
was wrong, you wouldn't even be allowed to get updates and I assume the same
will happen with Vista.

 

[Peter]

I'm in Vista at the moment and managed to get it to update after two failed
attempts...strange. My day/date is all correct as is my time zone. Never
had this problem in years!

 

[Joe Grover]

If it happens again, make sure the Windows Time service is running.

 

[Peter]

That was the first thing I looked at - thanks ;-)

 

[Guest]

I had the same problem.
Ichanged my time to a wrong time(set the clock back 10 minutes) and ran
synchronise again.
Since then it works correctly

 

[Peter]

Interesting trick, I'll try it the next time.