System time synchronized with the hardware clock.

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System time synchronized with the hardware clock.

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Hi. From the last 2 months, we are facing below issue on our Windows 2016 server every 10 days.

Server time is going back by 1 hour with the below message in eventvwr.

The system time has changed to ‎2023‎-‎12‎-‎27T07:34:29.500000000Z from ‎2023‎-‎12‎-‎27T08:34:38.153992100Z.

Change Reason: System time synchronized with the hardware clock.

It is again getting corrected after 2 hours with the below message in eventvwr.

The system time has changed to ‎2023‎-‎12‎-‎27T09:34:29.500000000Z from ‎2023‎-‎12‎-‎27T08:34:29.508436400Z.

Change Reason: System time synchronized with the hardware clock.

Below are the default settings of the server since very long time.

'Set Time Automatically' is off in 'Date & Time settings'. StartUp type of Windows Time service is Manual(Trigger) and is not running.

This is a WorkGroup server & not joined to any domain.

Why are we getting this issues & how can we avoid the system time being synchronized with the hardware clock.

Please guide. Thank you.

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Answer 1

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out! I'm Microsoft user like you.

Please go to BIOS and verify what is time showing in BIOS mode.

Also is this VM or Physical Machine ?

Is this server joined to AD Domain or Workgroup ?

On your Windows computer Go to -> Settings, navigate to Time & Language > Date & time, scroll down and click Additional date, time & regional settings under Related settings. Select Clock and Region.

Click on Date and Time, click on Internet Time tab and click on Change settings

On the Internet Time Settings -> Please make sure that Synchronize with an Internet time server is checked

In case of additional questions, reach out back to me, and I will be happy to help and try our best to resolve your issue.

Best Regards,

Prakash

Answer 2

Hi Prakash,

Thanks for your response.

This is a Workgroup. It is a Physical machine. It is our Production Database server & we cannot afford any downtime. So, cannot check in the BIOS mode. We don't want to synchronize with Internet Time server due to some other factors.

Please guide if there is any way to stop/disable synchronization with hardware clock. Thank you.

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