Vista - Time Sync problem

Upon installing Vista (Home Premium - 'clean install') I began getting the
error message depicted in the screen-shot .jpg shown here:

https://rtc2.one.microsoft.com/Media...57%7D/time.jpg

I tried resolving the issue using the support live chat. That was a mistake
and turned into a big joke.

How do I go about getting my computer's clock accuracy (stratum) to be equal
to, or greater than, the host's?

Any help is appreciated.

Try using the pull down and selecting from the different time servers
available. I get this message from time to time and usually if I just try 2
or 3 different time servers one of them will connect and sync the clock.
This is an annoyance and one I'd wish they would fix. Good luck.


"Bill Lewis" <bwlII@msm.con> wrote in message
news:u$aM0pWfHHA.3960@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Upon installing Vista (Home Premium - 'clean install') I began getting the
> error message depicted in the screen-shot .jpg shown here:
>
> https://rtc2.one.microsoft.com/Media...57%7D/time.jpg
>
> I tried resolving the issue using the support live chat. That was a
> mistake and turned into a big joke.
>
> How do I go about getting my computer's clock accuracy (stratum) to be
> equal to, or greater than, the host's?
>
> Any help is appreciated.

Your firewall may be blocking port 123 (Network Time Protocol Port.)
Allow the port access.


"Bill Lewis" <bwlII@msm.con> wrote in message
news:u$aM0pWfHHA.3960@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Upon installing Vista (Home Premium - 'clean install') I began getting the
> error message depicted in the screen-shot .jpg shown here:
>
> https://rtc2.one.microsoft.com/Media...57%7D/time.jpg
>
> I tried resolving the issue using the support live chat. That was a
> mistake and turned into a big joke.
>
> How do I go about getting my computer's clock accuracy (stratum) to be
> equal to, or greater than, the host's?
>
> Any help is appreciated.

I think this is usually caused when you have your clock set to far off to
begin with. Check the date, time, am-pm, and time-zone to make sure you are
at least close to being correct.

"Bill Lewis" <bwlII@msm.con> wrote in message
news:u$aM0pWfHHA.3960@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Upon installing Vista (Home Premium - 'clean install') I began getting the
> error message depicted in the screen-shot .jpg shown here:
>
> https://rtc2.one.microsoft.com/Media...57%7D/time.jpg
>
> I tried resolving the issue using the support live chat. That was a
> mistake and turned into a big joke.
>
> How do I go about getting my computer's clock accuracy (stratum) to be
> equal to, or greater than, the host's?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>

I got it too and don't know the cause but I switched the timeserver to
pool.ntp.org and it works fine.

Peter

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:24:15 -0700, "Bill Lewis" <bwlII@msm.con>
wrote:

>Upon installing Vista (Home Premium - 'clean install') I began getting the
>error message depicted in the screen-shot .jpg shown here:
>
>https://rtc2.one.microsoft.com/Media...57%7D/time.jpg
>
>I tried resolving the issue using the support live chat. That was a mistake
>and turned into a big joke.
>
>How do I go about getting my computer's clock accuracy (stratum) to be equal
>to, or greater than, the host's?
>
>Any help is appreciated.

I went through the list of time sources and got the IP addresses for each.
I typed each into the Server: box and each connected just fine. Once I did
that for the entire list the server names now work too.

Go figure??



"Peter" <pmkdatabase@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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>I got it too and don't know the cause but I switched the timeserver to
> pool.ntp.org and it works fine.
>
> Peter
>
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:24:15 -0700, "Bill Lewis" <bwlII@msm.con>
> wrote:
>
>>Upon installing Vista (Home Premium - 'clean install') I began getting the
>>error message depicted in the screen-shot .jpg shown here:
>>
>>https://rtc2.one.microsoft.com/Media...57%7D/time.jpg
>>
>>I tried resolving the issue using the support live chat. That was a
>>mistake
>>and turned into a big joke.
>>
>>How do I go about getting my computer's clock accuracy (stratum) to be
>>equal
>>to, or greater than, the host's?
>>
>>Any help is appreciated.