Apple Time Server is wrong on my Macbook Pro

Hi,
For a while now I've recognised that my timestamps on various applications are appearing wrong. For example: My Twitter feed says tweets were from 5 Hours ago when they may have only been from 10 minutes.
I checked my settings and in Time & Date, I had it set to custom. The custom time was correct, and so was the date, however the time stamps were still wrong.
I then proceeded to check the box that says "Set Date and Time automatically" -> I then chose Apple Europe and it states that the time is 23:14, when infact it is actually 04:14 therefore being 5 hours different, relating to the timestamp problem I'm receiving.
Therefore from this evidence I'm assuming that there is something wrong with the time server on my macbook.
TL:DR - My macbook pro time server is 5 hours slow and is making applications give an incorrect time stamp.
I'm on a macbook Pro from 2011 roughly. I did also have a short circuit problem months ago that may have been the cause, I seem to remember that roughly being the time that the timestamps started appearing wrong!
Any help would be really appreciated!
thanks

Check your Time Zone setting in the Date & Time preference pane.  Also be aware that if you have the "Set time zone automatically using current location" enabled, then using a VPN with an endpoint in another country could cause this problem.
Also be aware that if you have any type of firewall in place on your network then the NTP protocol may be blocked.  In this case your only solution is to set the date, time, and timezone manually.

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