On Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4, I enter the command:

net time set -I 192.59.196.66

Where 192.59.196.66 is the IP address of a Windows Server 2008 time server. The response is:

/bin/date 071218072010.20 failed. Error was (Success)

The actual clock time does not get updated. However, evidently it did really communicate with the time server on 192.59.196.66, because the value in the response 071218072010.20 does correspond to the time on the time server, albeit in the somewhat bizarre format MMDDHHMMYYYY.SS.

I’ve been Googling around, but haven’t found an explanation of this Success failure! How can I get it to actually succeed?

Thanks, Joseph

"Net" tool is a part of Samba package installed on your server, so may be there is some problem with Samba installation or configuration. The best way to synchronize the time is to use NTP.