To quote The Chambers Brothers...

[plonq]

Time has come today.

My little saga started when my phone chimed with a reminder that I needed to remember my daily picture. I have my calendars and reminders synced across devices, so my computer should have been reminding me as well.

About twenty seconds later, my computer finally chimed in with its reminder. Twenty seconds isn't that bad, right? It still annoyed me, though, because both devices are supposed to automatically sync their time settings with online time servers, so at worst they should have been a second or two apart. It occurred to me that it was possible that they both polled their reminder services at difference times/rates, but with my desktop computer's spotty relationship with time servers, I was pretty sure there was an issue with its internet time sync.

I opened up my time settings and noticed that it had been the better part of a month since its last successful sync with the windows time server. I told it to manually sync, and as I half-suspected would happen, it failed with an error message stating the the process had timed out.

This started a process of swapping back and forth between the time settings, and the old control panel where I tried a number of different time servers. Every one of them either timed out, or complained that they couldn't find a time server at the other end.

Then I noticed that the changes I made in the control panel were not transferring over to the Windows 10 time settings.

That's when I started editing the registry, adding time servers and setting the defaults there.

Then I began stopping and restarting services.

And editing policies.

And modifying services.

And trying different time servers.

I finally got success with this:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>w32tm /debug /disable
Sending disable private log command to local computer ...The command completed successfully.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>w32tm /unregister
W32Time successfully unregistered.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>w32tm /register
W32Time successfully registered.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>net start w32time
The Windows Time service is starting.
The Windows Time service was started successfully.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:"3.ca.pool.ntp.org" /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update
The command completed successfully.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>w32tm /resync
Sending resync command to local computer
The command completed successfully.

As an added bonus, I'm syncing with a Canadian server now, so I get proper metric time. Huzzah!

We finally managed to get the family together out in Victoria to hold a proper service for my brother. My sister-in-law dedicated a memorial bench to him up at Whistler, but it will have to wait for my next visit to the coast for me to check it out. I only had a rental car for the Victoria leg of the trip, and I depended on transit and friends to get around in Vancouver.

I still get corporate discounts at the old CP hotels in Vancouver, so I stayed at the Pan Pacific this time out. I got a nice view of the eastern harbour from my room.


On my last day there, the skies closed in and it rained. Since most of my plans for that day had involved walking around town, and I had already checked out of my room and put my bag with the raincoat in storage, I decided to just buy a day pass and ride transit for a few hours. The rain let up to drizzle by the time I got to the north shore, so caught a shot of the sea bus disappearing into the fog.

Comments

Liberté, Fraternité, Metricalité

[frith]

Yer in fer a world of pain with yer fancy metric time. Ten hour days, 100 minute hours, 100 second minutes, that's 100,000 seconds a day. Each second's gonna be a sixth of a second faster than vanilla universal time. My friends weren't too pleased when I counted "steambolts" in metric time before tackling the quarterback.

*<8o)***

Re: Liberté, Fraternité, Metricalité

[plonq]

A centiminute is a perfectly cromulent measure of time for football.

Re: Liberté, Fraternité, Metricalité

[frith]

This explains why Canadian Football games are faster than the ones south of the border.

Re: Liberté, Fraternité, Metricalité

[plonq]

Well, the metric time is part of it. Canadian Football players also used to have to contend with having bigger balls, but now that they've shrunk to NFL size, they find they can move faster.