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Time on my EC2 windows instance changed automatically

Configure Windows time sync:

 First ensure that you can get time from a NTP server, otherwise the instructions below are not going to work.
To test, get the current variance from an NTP server using the following Windows Time service command
w32tm /stripchart /samples:5 /computer:pool.ntp.org /dataonly

 In a VPC we had to open UDP port 123 for inbound connections in the NAT security group.

 To configure NTP time sync in Windows

 1. Registry edit - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient
Set SpecialPollInterval to polling interval in seconds (we set ours to 60).
2. Registry edit - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\Parameters
Set Type to NTP
3. Run the following commands to configure the time servers (can use other servers, we're using 4 time servers - 0.pool.ntp.org, time.nist.gov, 1.pool.ntp.org, and 2.pool.ntp.org)

 net stop w32time

 w32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual /manualpeerlist:"0.pool.ntp.org,0x1 time.nist.gov,0x1 1.pool.ntp.org,0x1 2.pool.ntp.org,0x1"

 net start w32time

 To review the config
w32tm /query /configuration

 To check the sync against a time server
w32tm /stripchart /samples:5 /computer:pool.ntp.org /dataonly
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