You’d think that synchronizing the clocks across a fleet of modern servers is a solved problem, but it’s actually quite a hard challenge to solve, especially if you want to get to nanosecond accuracy.

So, I have a network with only one domain controller. That domain controller is a VM running Small Business Server 2011. It is hosted on a server running ESXi. I have disabled time synchronization in ...

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Fixing out of sync VM clocks may be a bit annoying, but it's 100 percent doable. Here's how. One of the nice things about Hyper-V is that you usually don't have to worry about setting virtual machine ...

On most modern computers, you can either set the clock manually or have it automatically sync with an internet clock server that will tell it what time it is. You may find your computer clock wrong if ...

Incorrect time on a Windows device or server can prevent security updates or user authentication, and it can interfere with a forensics investigation. The recent U.S. daylight saving time change ...