on 2/1/2008 1:29 PM John R Pierce spake the following:
Scott Silva wrote:
on 2/1/2008 12:03 PM Dennis McLeod spake the following:
XP command line:
net time \servername returns what?
Perhaps the response will give a clue.
To set it:
net time \servername /set /yes
Net time is only used to set time from a domain controller, not an ntp server. They use two completely different protocols.
however,
NET TIME /SETSNTP:ip-of-ntp-server
WILL set the windows 'internet time' server IP.
NET TIME /QUERYSNTP
will show the current 'internet time' server(s).
note that the default Windows NTP client is really braindead, it just 'sets' the system clock once a day, its not a proper NTP implementation. for most users, this is fine, but realize oddities can happen like the clock being set back a few seconds such that a given time happens twice.
I stand partially corrected, as the originally posted command line of "net time \servername /set /yes" would not query a ntp server.