I have noticed that when the weekend to switch to DST was changed in 2007 from when it used to be, my computer never stopped changing it the second time! The Mac I used to have did it, and I was dismayed to find that the PC I bought a couple of years ago also does it. You’ll see Windows report that “The clock was successfully synchronized.” You can now click OK to close the open windows.
As long as your PC is connected to a functioning Internet connection and the selected server is online, the synchronization process should just take a few seconds. Once you’ve made your server selection, click Update Now to initiate a synchronization. While most users will be fine with the default server selection from Microsoft and the NIST, there are many other public and private time servers ( NTP) you can find online and use to synchronize your Windows PC. You can now select one of the provided time servers from the drop-down list, which includes Microsoft’s own time server () as well as several regional servers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, popularly known as “the folks with the atomic clock.” But you’re not limited to the servers in the list you can add any valid time server yourself by typing the address into the Server field.
