I was having issues with my 2008 servers clocks: they were running fast. After 30 days they were 2 minutes fast. 90 days they were 6 minutes. You can guess how fast they were after 120 days. Yay math!

In XP and 2000 one could simply open up the date and time control panel (or double click on the clock) and, through some tabbed Internet Time, select a predetermined NTP server. Maybe I’m just blind, but I couldn’t find the option in 2008 or vista. It could be one of my GPO’s blocking said option. In any case, my clients were all receiving this “fast” time. Not good.

To fix:
Open up an administrative command window (windows key + r works wonders for me)
Set the NTP server to time-nw.nist.gov
net time /setsntp:time-nw.nist.gov
Make sure that the NTP server has been saved
net time /querysntp
See where you’re grabbing your NTP information from (usually a domain controller)
net time
Actually corrects the time to your NTP server
w32tm /resync