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A truly bizarre answer, is there a knowledge base article or similar that prompted you to suggest this? I tried it, but it didn't work I'm afraid.
– Day
Commented Mar 18, 2011 at 13:44
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Albiet a bizarre answer, a lot of Microsoft technologies rely on time. For a specific example: Active Directory - if the client's clock is different than the server's clock bad funny things can/will happen.
– Natalie Adams
Commented Mar 18, 2011 at 23:08
It's not just Microsoft technologies. Active Directory uses Kerberos (an open source protocol) which uses time to express ticket expiration.
– Jonathon Reinhart
Commented Feb 3, 2016 at 10:31

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