Time synchronisation of workstations

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We have an issue where workstations are not showing the same time time on
their clocks as the DCs on some there is almost a quarter of an hour
difference.

AD setup is Two sites London & New York. Our main DC is in NY and we have
two DCs in London. I have installed some internet time software on our Dcs.
All the Dcs are showing the correct time.

Any help would be appreciated
 
You haven't provided a whole lot of info but you could use gpo to force all
clients to use a certain time source.


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320258

After you applying this hotfix, you can synchronize the time outside the
client's site if no domain controller is present. The Group Policy setting
for CrossSiteSyncFlags is used. The Group Policy entry correlates to the
following registry value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\N
tpClient

CrossSiteSyncFlags REG_DWORD = 0x00000002 (default)
With CrossSiteSyncFlags set to 0, Windows XP-based clients do not try to
synchronize outside the site.

With CrossSiteSyncFlags set to 2, Windows XP-based clients use out-of-site
domain controllers for synchronization. This is the default value, but is
not used for Windows XP-based clients before you apply this hotfix.

No matter what the CrossSiteSyncFlags value is set to, the client chooses
the closest site domain controller to synchronize with if both a close site
domain controller and an out-of-site domain controller are available.
 
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