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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? Am using Windows XP.

Thank you



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Jack Gillis

Jack Gillis wrote:
> This afternoon, I tried to synchronize the clock on my desktop and my
> laptop using time.windows.com

If you search on time.windows.com, you will find a lot of trouble.

> as well as time.nist.gov.

I use a tool called nistime32 which used to be at
http://www.yashnikov.info/nistime32.html

.... but isn't anymore. But I like it.

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Mike Easter

Mike Easter wrote:

> I use a tool called nistime32

It can still be found at NIST

http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm NIST Internet Time Service -- Software
and Instructions - Public Domain NIST Software - Windows 95 and later
(32 or 64-bit) Version 3.31 - 20 September 2007 -
ftp://time-a.nist.gov/pub/daytime/nistime-32bit.exe


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Mike Easter

Jack Gillis wrote:
> 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? Am using Windows XP.


It happens sometimes. I doubt either server was actually down.


-------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\DateTime\Servers]
@="6"
"1"="time.windows.com"
"2"="time.nist.gov"
"3"="clock.isc.org"
"4"="timekeeper.isi.edu"
"5"="usno.pa-x.dec.com"
"6"="tock.usno.navy.mil"
"7"="tick.usno.navy.mil"
-----------------------------------

Copy everything between but not including the dashed lined and paste it
to Notepad. Call the file ntp.reg

Save it. Now double click on it, yes, ok.


You now have seven NTP servers to choose from.

"Jack Gillis" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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? Am using Windows XP.

It's my understanding that neither of those time servers has worked for
quite awhile.

Go to Date & Time Properties > Internet Time tab
Highlight whatever's appearing in the Server box.
Delete.
Enter ntp.nasa.gov
click Apply
click OK.

That one should work.

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Alan

*alan* wrote:
> "Jack Gillis" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > 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? Am using Windows XP.
>
> It's my understanding that neither of those time servers has worked for
> quite awhile.
>
> Go to Date & Time Properties > Internet Time tab
> Highlight whatever's appearing in the Server box.
> Delete.
> Enter ntp.nasa.gov
> click Apply
> click OK.
>

> That one should work.
>
I've had trouble with that one from time to time.

I use pool.ntp.org as the NTP service.

Have a look: http://www.pool.ntp.org/

Introduction

The pool.ntp.org project is a big virtual cluster of timeservers
striving to provide reliable easy to use NTP service for millions of
clients without putting a strain on the big popular timeservers.

Active Servers

* Africa 3
* Asia 62
* Europe 807
* North America 513
* Oceania 57
* South America 16
* Global 1205
* All Pool Servers 1440

As of 2007-09-28 --

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Jack Gillis
"Jack Gillis" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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? Am using Windows XP.
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> --
> Jack Gillis
>

Thank you very much to all who replied. I wound up using time-a.nist.gov
and it works just fine.

Thanks again.

Jack Gillis wrote:

.... everything else automagically snipped due to
a signature delimiter (dash-dash-whitespace) as first line in posting ...

Btw., most of the times one of the nameservers of your ISP may work
as timeserver just fine ...