My PC clock showing wrong time
 

Despite the fact it automatically regularly updates.I clicked on update and it stayed at 1500 hours.Anyone else able to update normally?I've had to do it manually. :confused:

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Just done it OK.. Did you get an error?

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Works fine for me.


Maybe try changing the time server? XP gives two options: time.windows.com & time.nist.gov

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Yes.Discovered it was set to Pacific time but I'm still getting an error message when I set it to Greenwich Mean time.I'll just have wait until tomorrow,bed is beckoning. :sleep:
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Tried both got the same error message. :erm:

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One thing I have found. If the date is wrong, then Windows will not reset the time automatically. Seems silly, I know.

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Am i missing somethng? my time and date are spot on

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Check your Motherboard battery doesn`t need changing, should be changed every three years tops!:)

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I use a little NTP client called Automachron and sync with time.cableol.net

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Had a new motherboard installed in January so I doubt it.

The date is correct, the time zone is now correct but the time still is not right .This time I got the error message that the date was wrong.Well it isn't it's the time that's wrong. :mad:This happened with both available update sites..

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My old one use to run slow and this one runs fast I just put the time right every now and again

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This isn't running slow it's completely out of wack by several hours.When I began at 3 this afternoon it was 00.07. :D

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Long shot but on my pc I had disabled Windows Time, and this caused a cascade of problems.

check on it by this

start menu, run , "services.msc" search down at bottom for windows time and make sure its enabled.

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Had a look and it's enabled.

I also restarted the PC and it seems to be at the correct time.

Will let you know if it happens again.. :D

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Coggy, do you have a router by any chance ??? or a firewall ???

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I don't have a router but I do have ZAP.What would ZAP have to do with altering the time..

I think it maybe that my son hath been fiddling again and altered the time zone.The only problem I had after I sorted that part was that the update sites were sending back the wrong error message.It is now reading the correct time and the update message is now correct. :shrug:

Hmm!One of those weird Windows oddities I guess.I will keep a close eye on it.

The only other time I've lost time in this way is when using Byrce5 which seems to prevent any program on the taskbar from working.However the update still worked afterwards.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions. :tu:

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I put "time.cableol.net" into the Windows time sync and used that.

The router (which I turn off overnight) is set to use the UBR, but the time on that is considerably wrong - however - since it uses it every day, I thought it rather unfair to hammer the one good timeserver, or anything more distant.

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Oddly enough, when ZAP has one of its funny turns, it's usually Automachron that has its traffic blocked. I have to re-add the time.cabelol.net NTP server to the Trusted zone.

Beats me :shrug:

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That's cause when you boot, your 'puter is using the time/date using the CMOS clock of your PC, but when Windows is up and running, it uses it's own mechanism to try and calculate the time. The CMOS clock is usually correct (unless the battery is on its way out), whereas the Windows one is often wrong.

Computers today use a device equivalent to an Intel 8254 timer-counter chip. The timer-counter is programmed by the BIOS to generate an interrupt every 54.936 milliseconds, or about 18.206 times per second. Another BIOS routine counts the interrupt requests and generates a time-of-day clock that can be read or set by other software programs.

Windows XP is a lot more consistent than 9x ever was (thanks to the w32time service) but it's still not 100% accurate.

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I dunno. My Windows XP clock is currently synchronised with my watch (which recieves time signals from Rugby, so should be accurate).

Could be a fluke though..

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Well thanks for all the help and info everyone..it seems to be ok now. :tu:





















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