w32 time finally fixed

for years, our computer clocks have been off. everytime i sat down for a 20 minute shot to try and get it working, it always failed. finally found a site that walked through the process and it finally works!

http://www.anotherurl.com/library/network_time.htm

snip:
Setting the time automatically is just so simple™. Run this ruin:
net time /setsntp:"ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk ntp2b.mcc.ac.uk"

Port 123 must be open
So how DO you know it's all working?

turn off the time service
net stop w32time

set the time out by 10 minutes
C:\>time
The current time is: 15:54:45.17
Enter the new time: 16:04

check it
C:\>time
The current time is: 16:04:43.35
Enter the new time:

type:

C:\>w32tm -once

.....

W32Time: *****SetSystemTime()*****
W32Time: END Line 1258
W32Time: Time was 06min 08.201s
W32Time: Time is 57min 08.431s
W32Time: Error 539770ms
W32Time: BEGIN:CheckLeapFlag
W32Time: END:Line 584
W32Time: BEGIN:ComputePostTimeData
W32Time: BEGIN:ComputeInterval
W32Time: END Line 2452
W32Time: BEGIN:ComputeSleepStuff
W32Time: Computed stagger is 0ms, bias is 0ms
W32Time: Time until next sync - 2699.960s
W32Time: END:Line 794
W32Time: END:Line 220
W32Time: END:Line 195
W32Time: BEGIN:TermTime
W32Time: TimeMMCleanup()
W32Time: BEGIN:FinishCleanup
W32Time: BEGIN:TsUpTheThread
W32Time: END Line 1385
W32Time: Time service stopped.
W32Time: END:Line 407

now check the time, and restart the service

C:\>time
The current time is: 15:58:39.37
Enter the new time:

C:\>net start w32time

The Windows Time service was started successfully.

Finally make sure the time service starts automatically.

From the client machines on the domain type w32tm /resync