David, you just posted this half an hour ago in your second thread and I
just replied to it. . . I know it's frustrating when you're waiting for
an answer, but it's really better to stick to one thread.

Never mind. . .

I think the point of directing you to that Microsoft article was to have
you try some other time servers. Did you? (If you're not sure how, you
just go to Control Panel | Date and Time |Internet Time, click the
server name box to highlight it and type in the name of the new server.
Then click Update Now and see if it works :-)


David Black <DavidBlack@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Mon, 16 Apr
2007:

>When I try to sync my clock I get the following message: An error occurred
>while Windows was synchronizing with time.windows.com. The time sample was
>rejected because: The peer's stratum is less than the host's stratum.
>
>The first response I got was due to many problems with that server,
>"time.windows.com" was always the first thing to be changed on my WinXP
>systems. See if this article helps "A list of the Simple Network Time
>Protocol (SNTP) time servers that are available on the Internet"
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262680. When I went to that web page there
>was only one site http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ntp.html where you could
>download anything that might correct the problem. After downloading Windows
>could not open the downloaded file, so it was of no help.
>
>The second response I got was Install *both* updates if not already done:
>
>1. "Update for Windows XP (KB931836)"
>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...g=en&FamilyID=
>66f1420c-df2d-400b-a8a9-ef9061a9a3ca
>
>2. "Update for Windows XP (KB932590)"
>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...g=en&FamilyID=
>1b38b995-a6f2-4703-95fc-f504ef4e4f39
>
>I had previously downloaded both of the above updates and still had the
>problem. I would appreciate any help in getting this issue resolved.
>

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