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A mysterious issue is affecting the default Windows NTP server (time.windows.com), according to multiple complaints coming from Reddit and Twitter users, screwing up everyone's computer clocks.
Based on reports, the time.windows.com NTP server is sending Windows users the incorrect time, sometimes off by seconds, but in other cases, off even by hours. The issue was spotted today, April 3, early in the morning, and is ongoing for at least 10 hours.
The impact was felt immediately by servers that rely on the Windows NTP service to schedule and execute tasks. Unhappy admins found their servers launching routines early or too late, botching scripts and crashing their applications.
[...] UPDATE: A Microsoft representative acknowledged the issue. "We investigated and quickly resolved the issue our time service experienced," the Microsoft spokesperson wrote in an email. Tests carried out by Bleeping Computer confirmed the Windows NTP serrvice is up and running at the time of this update.
Source: Bleeping Computer
(Score: 2) by deimios on Thursday April 06 2017, @04:42AM (2 children)
Windows time servers actually send time?! That's the first time I've heard about it. I've been installing NetTime pointed to real NTP servers since forever because I could never get windows to do it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @07:30AM (1 child)
Not only that, but Windows understands the NTP protocol, so you can just go into control panel -> date and time and change it to use pool.ntp.org. No 3rd party software needed.
I'm more surprised that time.windows.com is still operational, because last week after we had to replace the BIOS battery in an old server after the power went out, we realized that server thought it was 2002, and trying to get it to connect to time.windows.com failed (and had done so for the week or so before we realized the problem). Googling the failure only gave us other people who also could not connect to time.windows.com, and replacing it with pool.ntp.org solved the problem.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday April 06 2017, @03:47PM
Not only that, but Windows understands the NTP protocol, so you can just go into control panel -> date and time and change it to use pool.ntp.org. No 3rd party software needed.
What version of Windows are you using? My Windows 10 computer at work is off by ~3 minutes and I can't find what you're talking about.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"