Windows Server 2003 SP level? DST patch (and other patches) installed on the
server?

Run this on PC and server:
net time /querysntp

What does it show?

"ex-CTP" <exCTP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EF12DB30-269A-455E-A3DD-712FDB9E1C57@microsoft.com...
> Never saw this occur before. Am at small site, running servers in AD, all
> 2003 R2. All clients WERE in a workgroup (amazing, after all these years,
> that this is still out there...) Anyways... I am migrating PC's running
> XP
> to domain as I can. ALL XP pc's are joining domain OK. ALL are set up
> with
> correct time and time zone prior to joining domain.
>
> ALL servers are displaying correct time and time zone.
>
> ALL PC's and servers are in same small campus/LAN.
>
> When the XP PC's join the domain, they add an hour to their time. So,
> server is at 1:00PM. PC running XP (with ALL patches, yes even the
> daylight
> savings time patch) is showing 1:00 PM. I join the PC running XP to the
> AD
> domain. The PC goes from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM. If I set it back to 1:00
> PM,
> it resynchs itself to time server (Which is the domain PDC, verified by
> doing
> a "net time" at the command prompt) and changes itself back to an hour
> forward, i.e. from 1:00pm to 2:00 pm.
>
> This has occurred with three PC's I have moved into domain so far. I have
> temp fixed by changing the PC time zone to one with a one hour difference
> from our "real" time zone.
>
> And again, all patches are there. All are synching to a 2003 server with
> correct time and time zone. and used "net time" to verify the time is
> correct on the time server from the PC point of view. I mean really, the
> PC
> shows 2:00pm, the server shows 1:00 pm. I do a "net time" at the PC, and
> it
> shows "time server blah-blah 1:00 pm". Time zones are set OK, patches are
> all on. Has to be a server issue, but I cannot find any patch info for
> server for time synch issues.
>
> Not a horrible thing, but it should not be happening.