How Windows servers update, or not update, their clocks is something that might not be readily understood by the average hosting customer, but it can be very important if your web applications are time-sensitive. In this article, I’m going to cover time on standalone (or single – couldn’t resist not using this title) Windows servers. A standalone server is one that is not a member of an Active Directory domain. I’ll cover time on domain servers in the another article. Installed out of the box, every Windows server is set to update its time from time.windows.com, which is an NTP service maintained by Microsoft. But as the number of Windows …
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