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Windows Timserver setup and for use with other apps.
I have windows 10 pro and when I bootup, or reinstall windows ten and setup the laptop, I setup the timezone and say synch to the current time.
I've always assumed that windows was synching to a timeserver somewhere or relied on the time I entered into the BIOS and is retained as long as the BIOS battery was good.
Now I have a commercial program on the laptop using a trial license. One of the things it requires and actually does is a diagnostic check on the Time server (NTP). There is a place in the configuration settings to specify the web address to the NTP time server.
I realize everyones timeserver syncs to the master atomic clock at the US Navy Observatory and others. It is not smart enough to retrieve the one from windows (or its registry) for use so I must enter it manually and retest.
Doing a google search windows 10 uses time.windows.com . Entering this into the app and rerunning the diagnostics still fails.
I've pinged time.windows.com and it pings. So I assume the port number is open what ever the port number is.
Moreover, doing more searching I came across
w32tm /query /configuration
w32tm /query /status
time /t
Doing time /t gives me the time; however, the w32tm command for /status says my windows 10 time server isn't setup.
The following error occurred: The service has not been started. (0x80070426)
So I'm not sure if this means that I don't have an "NTP server" running whereby w32tm is checking that, or if it can't check the time service at someones timeservice such as microsofts. Moreover, how can it get the time from msofts time server and ping it if it isn't configured and assuming it just doesn't get the time from the BIOS.?
In the meantime, I could just go to other timeservers sites: my ISP, google, US Navy Observatory etc. to get the eval software diagnostic to pass.....
Update=======
I then entered time.google.com and the commercial app still times out. So now I don't know what the IBM commercial app is expecting. Is the diagnostic just pinging the server site, or is it retrieving time....