Knowledge Base

Remotely Synchronizing the Time Between Two Computers

Article ID: 151712

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

APPLIES TO

This article was previously published under Q151712

SUMMARY

From time to time, you may need to synchronize a computer's time with that of another computer while lacking physical access to one or both computers. Using the AT Command Scheduler, you can issue a NET TIME command to the remote computer(s).

The following example shows how to synchronize the time for ComputerA with ComputerB in a situation where the user only has physical access to ComputerC.
  1. From ComputerC, open a command prompt.
  2. Type the following command:

    AT \\ComputerA <HH:MM:SS> /INTERACTIVE "NET TIME \\ComputerB /SET /Y"

    This schedules the NET TIME command to run the next time ComputerA gets to <HH:MM:SS>.
You can check the time on ComputerA by typing NET TIME \\COMPUTERA. This will display the time on the remote machine (though it may be inaccurate, based on ComputerA's time zone).

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

139453NET TIME Does Not Report Correct Remote Time in Windows NT

The above example requires that the user have administrative rights on all three computers. In addition, the Scheduler service must be running on ComputerA and ComputerC.

Additional query words: schedule remote time set date command

Keywords: KB151712


Send feedback to Microsoft

© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.