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Sorry if this is a newb question, but I was told by someone about a month ago that if I change the date and/or time on one of our servers it could break our websites or something. I can't fully remember who told me or what they actually said... but we have a Windows Server 2008 that is 1 hour 12 minutes slow and it is messing with one of my websites event logs (which we need to be as accurate as possible) So my question is:

If I change the time (Control Panel>Date and Time>Change Date and Time>update time) will I screw ANYTHING up? I am truly hoping the fix will be this simple but knowing my luck it's going to be a 10 hour process to update

Thank you!

Jason Herz
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  • Basically, what DanBig said, but I just wanted to say that I suspect that the person who told you that was thinking of Active Directory and setting the time to be incorrect. An oldie but goodie: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742516.aspx – Katherine Villyard Mar 11 '15 at 01:30

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Assuming this is an IIS server, you will have incorrectly dated (time) log files (existing files will now be that 1h12m behind), but that's about it.

DanBig
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