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Hi,
Hoping some kind soul can help me out here with some good advice.
I have two Windows 2000 SP4 Servers.
Server 1 is a standalone machine.
Server 2 is a PDC in it's own domain.
Each machine has two NIC's, one for connecting to a private LAN
and the other for connecting to a general purpose LAN.
Server 1 takes it's time from a non windows application operating on
the private LAN.
Server 1 is in the GMT time zone and does NOT automatically adjust for
Daylight Savings.
This is hard coded into the application that runs on server 1.
Server 2 does not take it's time from anywhere, more like a "free run"
setup.
Server 2 is also in the GMT time zone and does automatically adjust for
Daylight Savings.
This is not hard coded into the application which runs on server 2
Problem
------------
Server 1 and Server 2 share common data. When certain pieces of data
which are relative
to time are set on either server the other server adjusts that time to
be an hour out.
Eg set time for a given event in the application that runs on server 2
for 8am, then when that event is queried on server 1 it shows as 7am.
When you correct the time to 8am on server 1, then query it on server 2
it shows as 9am.
These server run realtime applications so this really screws things up
for us.
What's been done
---------------------------
We removed automatically adjust for Daylight Savings on Server 2 then
rebooted. We can now get both servers to agree on the time data - which
is what you would expect. However we are now left with haiving to
manually adjust the time on these machine twice a year, this is a
problem as there are >30 of these server-pairs which we maintain in
total.
I thought that by setting up all the Server 2's to take their time from
an external time source, this would solve the problem?
However, here's what I did and the results obtained:-
i. Deselect automatically adjust for daylight savings and correct
time on server 2
ii. Reboot server 2
iii. All now working OK.
iv. Set server 2 to take time from NTP server on network 2 Eg
time1.customer.com
v. Restart W32Time service on server 2
vi. Time not changes on server 2 to be one hour out.
Help
------
Can anyone suggest how I can get the time on server 2 to sync with a
NTP server, whilst the automatically adjust for DST is switched off?
I can't set up server 1 as the NTP server because that prevent's it
from taking it's time from the application it has to get it's time
from.
I'd be very grateful for any advice at all!
Rgds,
Stuart
Hoping some kind soul can help me out here with some good advice.
I have two Windows 2000 SP4 Servers.
Server 1 is a standalone machine.
Server 2 is a PDC in it's own domain.
Each machine has two NIC's, one for connecting to a private LAN
and the other for connecting to a general purpose LAN.
Server 1 takes it's time from a non windows application operating on
the private LAN.
Server 1 is in the GMT time zone and does NOT automatically adjust for
Daylight Savings.
This is hard coded into the application that runs on server 1.
Server 2 does not take it's time from anywhere, more like a "free run"
setup.
Server 2 is also in the GMT time zone and does automatically adjust for
Daylight Savings.
This is not hard coded into the application which runs on server 2
Problem
------------
Server 1 and Server 2 share common data. When certain pieces of data
which are relative
to time are set on either server the other server adjusts that time to
be an hour out.
Eg set time for a given event in the application that runs on server 2
for 8am, then when that event is queried on server 1 it shows as 7am.
When you correct the time to 8am on server 1, then query it on server 2
it shows as 9am.
These server run realtime applications so this really screws things up
for us.
What's been done
---------------------------
We removed automatically adjust for Daylight Savings on Server 2 then
rebooted. We can now get both servers to agree on the time data - which
is what you would expect. However we are now left with haiving to
manually adjust the time on these machine twice a year, this is a
problem as there are >30 of these server-pairs which we maintain in
total.
I thought that by setting up all the Server 2's to take their time from
an external time source, this would solve the problem?
However, here's what I did and the results obtained:-
i. Deselect automatically adjust for daylight savings and correct
time on server 2
ii. Reboot server 2
iii. All now working OK.
iv. Set server 2 to take time from NTP server on network 2 Eg
time1.customer.com
v. Restart W32Time service on server 2
vi. Time not changes on server 2 to be one hour out.
Help
------
Can anyone suggest how I can get the time on server 2 to sync with a
NTP server, whilst the automatically adjust for DST is switched off?
I can't set up server 1 as the NTP server because that prevent's it
from taking it's time from the application it has to get it's time
from.
I'd be very grateful for any advice at all!
Rgds,
Stuart