How to Synchronise your Clock with the Domain Controller

This article descripes how you can synchronise your computers clock with either your Domain Controller or any other windows computer on your network.

The quickest way to synchronise your clock with the domain time, open a command prompt window and type:

NET TIME /DOMAIN

To force a computer to synchronize its time with a specific computer, send the following command:

NET TIME \\<MACHINENAME> /SET /Y

-or-

NET TIME \\<IP Address> /SET /Y

Where <MACHINENAME> is the domain controller computer name, or IP address.

See Also: NET TIME /Domain Will Not Sync Time with Domain Time Source Server

11 thoughts on “How to Synchronise your Clock with the Domain Controller”

  1. This resolved a regular “unable to connect” problem with network printer connected to the non-syncronized station. Lot of thanks.

  2. Thanks for the post!
    On windows 7 I had to add /SET to the first domain to get it to perform the synchronization. (otherwise it just prints the time).

  3. Interesting. I was having issues with the w32tm command on Server2016 connected to a 2008R2 domain.
    I thought net time was deprecated but tried it anyway and worked like a charm!
    Thx

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