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Why does Windows require a correct date, to perform Internet Time synchronization?

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Mar 15, 2026447 views
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I ran into this recently, when booting a VM that hadn't been turned on in awhile. I'm guessing the system came up from a saved state, as I typically don't shut my VMs completely down. When the system came up, I noted that the time was incorrect. So, to resolve this, I naturally went to the Date & T…

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what is limiting it from synchronizing the date as part of the same operation in which it does the time? You assume that your network time server will always be authoritative. If an attacker can hijack your computer's requests to the time server the…

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