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George Artemiou
George Artemiou

Reputation: 3166

AWS Servers time issue

I have two servers running in the same private cloud within AWS.

For some reason Server 1 is always roughly 2 minutes behind Server 2. I checked the "Windows Time" service on both servers and I found that that service was disabled for Server 1. So I enabled it and thought that that should resolve my issue. I can still see observe this issue though. Can you please help me? I have set both Servers to automatically obtain time from "time.windows.com"

This is crucial to me as Server 2 calls Server 1 and asks for updates using it's local timestamp.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1765

Answers (3)

Jason Watts
Jason Watts

Reputation: 3860

this thread could also be helpful for those who are not interested in purchasing a 3rd party solution that may or may not be reliable.

It suggests changing the polling from 60480 seconds to 60 secons and not using windows time server.

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=428855

Upvotes: 0

George Artemiou
George Artemiou

Reputation: 3166

The way I resolved this issue was to install Tardis 2000.

Tardis is a shareware utility for Windows that makes sure your PC’s clock tells the right time. It can find out what the right time is in various ways including accessing Internet-based Atomic Clocks, using networked timeservers, GPS (The Global Positioning System), Radio clocks, and by listening for time broadcasts over a LAN.

Now both servers are in sync and there are no time issues anymore!

Upvotes: 0

datasage
datasage

Reputation: 19563

Time sync is always an issue with virtual machines. You will probably need to sync more than once per week. Set up a scheduled task with the W32tm.exe tool to run it every hour or so.

Upvotes: 1

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