Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?

WrCombs

apparently it's happened a whole lot within the last week where it sets the date back to 1/31/2019 ever since that day..
any Ideas on this?
goes back to 1/30/2019, yeah can see it in the event viewer too .
Kernel sets date/time to 1/31/2019 at 3:45 am

Proof:

Any Ideas?

DustinB3403

Per the other random thread this system isn't bound to a domain.

Is the system constantly resetting to the same date and time?

WrCombs

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

Per the other random thread this system isn't bound to a domain.

Is the system constantly resetting to the same date and time?

Yes,

Then it goes to 3/3/2019, randomly as well.

Obsolesce

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs oh I believed you. It might be worth it's own topic.

I've never seen this occur personally. I've had timezone issues in the past. Usually much older systems. But I've not experienced this.

It's crazy. I dont understand it.

Going to change the account policy and see if it's somebody is doing it.

Is it on the domain? Is the DC time correct? Servers and clients on the domain automatically use the DC time.

Not a domain, It's on a workgroup

What's the time in the BIOS say (if it's a physical install)?

I've seen BIOS time issues before.

If it's a VM, what's the host time show?

Should have posted this here.

WrCombs

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs oh I believed you. It might be worth it's own topic.

I've never seen this occur personally. I've had timezone issues in the past. Usually much older systems. But I've not experienced this.

It's crazy. I dont understand it.

Going to change the account policy and see if it's somebody is doing it.

Is it on the domain? Is the DC time correct? Servers and clients on the domain automatically use the DC time.

Not a domain, It's on a workgroup

What's the time in the BIOS say (if it's a physical install)?

I've seen BIOS time issues before.

If it's a VM, what's the host time show?

Should have posted this here.

It's physically installed.
I'm not on site, I'd have to be on site to check bios

DustinB3403

@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

Per the other random thread this system isn't bound to a domain.

Is the system constantly resetting to the same date and time?

Yes,

Then it goes to 3/3/2019, randomly as well.

So the system isn't just resetting to a time in the past but randomly jumping around?

WrCombs

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

Per the other random thread this system isn't bound to a domain.

Is the system constantly resetting to the same date and time?

Yes,

Then it goes to 3/3/2019, randomly as well.

So the system isn't just resetting to a time in the past but randomly jumping around?

yes, according to the events.

thinking it might be someone on site doing it, but times dont add up.

Obsolesce

@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

Per the other random thread this system isn't bound to a domain.

Is the system constantly resetting to the same date and time?

Yes,

Then it goes to 3/3/2019, randomly as well.

So the system isn't just resetting to a time in the past but randomly jumping around?

yes, according to the events.

thinking it might be someone on site doing it, but times dont add up.

I doubt someone onsite is changing the time to be incorrect.

DustinB3403

@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

Per the other random thread this system isn't bound to a domain.

Is the system constantly resetting to the same date and time?

Yes,

Then it goes to 3/3/2019, randomly as well.

So the system isn't just resetting to a time in the past but randomly jumping around?

yes, according to the events.

thinking it might be someone on site doing it, but times dont add up.

That kind of would make sense. I've manually had to change the clock on systems in the past to make some really awful software work. And reset it back again, for other things.

WrCombs

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

Per the other random thread this system isn't bound to a domain.

Is the system constantly resetting to the same date and time?

Yes,

Then it goes to 3/3/2019, randomly as well.

So the system isn't just resetting to a time in the past but randomly jumping around?

yes, according to the events.

thinking it might be someone on site doing it, but times dont add up.

I doubt someone onsite is changing the time to be incorrect.

that's what I said as well, But I changed the local account policy for it just to see.

Obsolesce

What is the result of this command:

w32tm /query /source

WrCombs

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

What is the result of this command:

w32tm /query /source

Service has not been started.

DustinB3403

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

Per the other random thread this system isn't bound to a domain.

Is the system constantly resetting to the same date and time?

Yes,

Then it goes to 3/3/2019, randomly as well.

So the system isn't just resetting to a time in the past but randomly jumping around?

yes, according to the events.

thinking it might be someone on site doing it, but times dont add up.

I doubt someone onsite is changing the time to be incorrect.

I've had to change the time to the past or distant future to get software that the business owned to work. From the devs they said "just change the date to X and it'll work for so many days etc".

This because their licencing dept was slow to provide licensing.

Obsolesce

@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

What is the result of this command:

w32tm /query /source

Service has not been started.

Run these in order:

net stop w32time 
w32tm /unregister 
w32tm /register 
net start w32time

Obsolesce

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

What is the result of this command:

w32tm /query /source

Service has not been started.

Run these in order:
net stop w32time 
w32tm /unregister 
w32tm /register 
net start w32time

You may have to do the /register one twice... or hte unregister one... i forget which

Obsolesce

After the service is started, run this:

w32tm.exe /resync /rediscover /nowait

WrCombs

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:
@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

What is the result of this command:

w32tm /query /source

Service has not been started.

Run these in order:
net stop w32time 
w32tm /unregister 
w32tm /register 
net start w32time
You may have to do the /register one twice... or hte unregister one... i forget which

Service has been started

WrCombs

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

After the service is started, run this:

w32tm.exe /resync /rediscover /nowait

command successful succeed

WrCombs

@Obsolesce what did I just do?

just so I can learn

Obsolesce

@WrCombs said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

@Obsolesce said in Windows Server 2012 R2 : randomly changes date/time ?:

After the service is started, run this:

w32tm.exe /resync /rediscover /nowait

command successful succeed

Okay, now just wait and see what happens. When will you know if it'll do it again? How often did it happen?