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Windows NTP Time Service Sends Wrong Time to Users Worldwide

posted by on Wednesday April 05 2017, @10:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-only-there-were-a-device-in-my-home-that-kept-time dept.

Fnord666 writes:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Thursday April 06 2017, @02:53PM

    by Justin Case (4239) on Thursday April 06 2017, @02:53PM (#489677) Journal

    The whole problem is that MS designed (I use the word very loosely) its software for Personal Computers, and then idiots, with a lot of encouragement from MS of course, thought this junk might be just fine for Business Computers.

    Their view was user-centric. "This is the time where I am." not "This is the time."

    Also "these are my files on my disk" so no need for a permissions system, not at first.

    When networks appeared "this is my network" so of course everything trusts everything else.

    Hell they even have the abomination of naming a file system object "My Documents"!

    And on and on...

    In case any of you young'uns think I'm criticizing them for a lack of foresight, let it be clear that Unix had all of the above solved correctly a decade before Bill Gates got the idea he was a qualified programmer. So, you know, he could have just learned from the professionals, but noooooooo.

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