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Event ID 282: The local system clock required an average frequency correction of … parts per million (PPM) over the past … minutes

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The local system clock required an average frequency correction of … parts per million (PPM) over the past … minutes.

Event 282
Time-Service
System log
Warning
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them)
The local system clock required an average frequency correction of … parts per million (PPM) over the past … minutes. The system time can drift approx … seconds per day if the system clock is undisciplined. This is larger than the suggested upper limit of 1 second/day for high accuracy applications. A highly available good time source is necessary to run high accuracy applications on this machine. Ignore this message if your application does not require high accuracy time.

The service is reading its group policy settings.

Event 282
Bits-Client
Bits-Client/Operational log
Verbose
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them)
The service is reading its group policy settings.