time.windows.com
 

current windows systems have a built in option to synch up the clock on your computer with an internet time server. it claims that it will synch up with time.windows.com. but when i attempted to update the clock on my computer (thinking i may have lost a second or 5 to daylight savings time) it wouldn't link up to the server, and gave me an error message saying "An error occured while WIndows was synchronizing with time.windows.com. The time sample was rejected because: The peer's stratum is less than the host's stratum." i googled and couldn't find anything, and tried a few other search engines with the same results, so i decided to go for an untapped resource: tfp'ers. anyone know what that means?

I think it means that you should switch server to time.nist.gov

I have no idea what that error means.

interesting...I'd notised last week that it wasn't working when I saw the events in event viewer - system...then I changed my 'Date and Time Properties' to time.nist.gov..which i just now see is not working either...

Found this list of NIST time servers..now playing with my registry, finding all the keys, see what happens.

//edit - after a few tries, I found a working nist server - time-nw.nist.gov

I did this exact same thing last night, and got the exact same error message, bacon_masta. I'll try changing my time server and see if that helps, too...

*EDIT: Nope, didn't work. If anyone finds a server that works for them, let me know.

glytch - edited my post w/ a working one ;)

The error means that time.windows.com was setup as a "client" rather than a server to your machine. I'm not sure how XP set's it's statum for NTP, but you should be stratum 10, which is bottom of the pile, NTP'ing speaking.

The good news is that that's an NTP error,not a microsoft error.

thanks SiN, got my time synched back up

Thanks SiN, you seem to be one step ahead of me today.