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This is the log from my most recent sync attempt:
SYNC-ATTEMPT Host: time.nist.gov Aug-13-2007 08:20:16 FAIL: Response From Time Server Timed Out
SYNC-ATTEMPT Host: ben.cs.wisc.edu Aug-13-2007 08:20:23 FAIL: Response From Time Server Timed Out
SYNC-ATTEMPT Host: bigben.cac.washington.edu Aug-13-2007 08:20:31 FAIL: Response From Time Server Timed Out
SYNC-ATTEMPT Host: bitsy.mit.edu Aug-13-2007 08:20:38 FAIL: Response From Time Server Timed Out
SYNC-ATTEMPT Host: canon.inria.fr Aug-13-2007 08:20:45 FAIL: Response From Time Server Timed Out
SYNC-ATTEMPT Host: chronos.univ-rennes1.fr Aug-13-2007 08:20:52 FAIL: Response From Time Server Timed Out
SYNC-ATTEMPT Host: clepsydra.dec.com Aug-13-2007 08:20:59 FAIL: Response From Time Server Timed Out
SYNC-ATTEMPT Host: clock.cmc.ec.gc.ca Aug-13-2007 08:21:06 FAIL: Response From Time Server Timed Out
SYNC-ATTEMPT Host: clock.isc.org Aug-13-2007 08:21:14 FAIL: Response From Time Server Timed Out
SYNC-ATTEMPT Host: clock.llnl.gov Aug-13-2007 08:21:21 FAIL: Response From Time Server Timed Out
SYNC-ATTEMPT Host: clock.nc.fukuoka-u.ac.jp Aug-13-2007 08:21:28 SUCCESS 67078.8981597222 39307.5149209606 -27771.3832387616!


I´m running XP Pro, and WT ver 5.5.5.478. Please tell me how I should address this problem, as it screws up all my site licenses, etc.,
Much TIA
Jimmy

Thank you Jimmy. Well done. I am a bit of a novice here and would never have worked out how to achieve the fix. I did not realise that such files were held on our own systems rather than on the WT server.
Thanks again . . . Rod

At risk of breaching netiquette by responding to my own post, I wrote: "Now all we have to do is figure out how to get it out of the server list?".

This worked: with Notepad, open wtservers.wtd in your World Time folder.
Delete the line containing "clock.nc.fukuoka-u.ac.jp" (no quotes) and save the file. WT won´t check the time against this inaccurate server again.

Leave the "over 45 minutes" box checked, in case there my be other grossly inaccurate servers in the list.
Jimmy

It sounds to me like that server has a problem - I´d suggest removing it from your list.

It´s for precisely this reason that the more then 45min warning is there - don´t click "Yes" when it´s obvious that the time will be set incorrectly by the time server.

Thanks, Rod, I had set the 45-minute warning, too, and did what you did, with the same result, happily, so it´s still 2007 :-).
I guess it had to be the time server in Japan?
Now all we have to do is figure out how to get it out of the server list?
Jimmy

This is happening to me also. When I do a synch, it stops at the Fukuoka clock and tells me the time will change by more than 45 minutes, do I wish to continue? ´Yes´ takes me to 2083, ´No´ continues cycling thru the clocks and correctly completes the synchronisation.