WordPress, cron & time - does time on server affects plugins? How to fix it?

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I'm running WordPress on lamp install in a virtual machine. I frequently pause it, save snapshots, etc. Date and time aren't correct because of this and I think I noticed weird behavior of plugins that use cron. How do I fix my time and plugins? Maybe I should get time from an external location so it would be correct even though I regularly pause my machine?

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In my experience, running WindowsXP via VMware on OS X, Windows updates the system time a minute or two after I start the VM after a pause. If that happens, you should be able to manually trigger Wordpress cron and as a result WP and plugins should update. Wordpress docs for wp_cron