You may not have noticed but, on and off, a lot of computers have not been getting the time from the internet ever since the change in Daylight Savings Time. There’s a lot of speculation that something in Microsoft’s patch did it. See FYI To Microsoft: Windows Time Synchronization Completely Broken (Vista, 2003, XP are all broken) if you want one of the discussions.
I had been having the problem and only noticed it because I occasionally look at the Event Log to see if any errors have happened. I kept trying to reconfigure my firewall, thinking that was the issue. But, at least for me, changing the time server to ntp-uw.usno.navy.mil fixed it. Both time.windows.com and time.nist.gov no longer worked after the DST change. Here is a list of some available servers:
- ntp-uw.usno.navy.mil
- north-america.pool.ntp.org
- nist1.aol-va.truetime.com … DC/Virginia
- utcnist.colorado.edu …….. Colorado
- nist1.aol-ca.truetime.com … California
- nist1.columbiacountyga.gov .. Georgia
- nist1.symmetricom.com ……. California
- nist1-ny.WiTime.net ……… NYC
- nist1-sj.WiTime.net ……… California
- nist.expertsmi.com ………. Michigan
- nist1-dc.WiTime.net ……… DC/Virginia
Just do a copy and paste of the server you want to use into your time server selection. You can get there by double-clicking on the time display in Window’s taskbar Notification Area (probably the bottom right corner of your screen). MSFT has more info if you need it.
Microsoft has a brief article about time servers that includes a list of some that are available at article kb262680.
