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Clock problem

  • 29-10-2013 10:14pm
    #1
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hi
    Since yesterday maybe even sunday even though I didn't notice it,the clock on my computer keeps showing the wrong time and everytime I reset it to the correct time it will never actually stay correct, I've tried setting it correctly in the bios and through the settings in windows but no good

    any ideas?

    I'm running windows 8.

    thanks.


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  • #2
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Check your time zone settings. (Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes)

    Or disable Windows Time service. This will prevent Windows from phoning home to momma and asking for the time. ;)


  • #3
    200motels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭200motels


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Hi
    Since yesterday maybe even sunday even though I didn't notice it,the clock on my computer keeps showing the wrong time and everytime I reset it to the correct time it will never actually stay correct, I've tried setting it correctly in the bios and through the settings in windows but no good

    any ideas?

    I'm running windows 8.

    thanks.
    Could be the cmos battery needs replacing.


  • #4
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    200motels wrote: »
    Could be the cmos battery needs replacing.

    I was afraid of that :( I've only had the computer since end of july though.


  • #5
    nava
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,739 ✭✭✭nava


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    I was afraid of that :( I've only had the computer since end of july though.

    What times does it change you, hours ahead or behind but correct minutes or everything is wrong?


  • #6
    looking_around
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    Don't worry, battery is easy and cheap to replace on most boards. //..though I doubt it, sounds more like it's "phoning in" as Torquay mentioned above and getting the wrong time


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  • #7
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    looking_around wrote: »
    Don't worry, battery is easy and cheap to replace on most boards. //..though I doubt it, sounds more like it's "phoning in" as Torquay mentioned above and getting the wrong time
    Time servers, and NTP and it's simpler cousin, SNTP, the protocols used for time synch, know nothing about time zones or summer time. They simply return GMT (or more correctly UTC) all the time to everybody everywhere.

    It's up to the machine using the time value received from the server to modify it according to it's own local time zone and summer time (DST) settings.

    More than likely the OP has the wrong time zone selected and/or has the option to automatically adjust for DST turned off.


  • #8
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    nava wrote: »
    What times does it change you, hours ahead or behind but correct minutes or everything is wrong?

    Well I had to correct it again last night at midnight and when I turned it on just there it was still at the 00:34 and once it gets to 00:59 instead of going to 01:00 it will go to 00:00.


  • #9
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    I had changed it there at around 14:40 to the correct and its saying its 15:07 now


  • #10
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    That's odd. Incorrect TZ or DST settings would mean it would be out by a whole hour (or possibly 30mins for some weird time zones) not a random number of minutes.

    What time server is your PC configured to get it's time from? The standard one for Windows is time.windows.com. I've just used an NTP testing tool to query it and it appears to be working OK.


  • #11
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Alun wrote: »
    That's odd. Incorrect TZ or DST settings would mean it would be out by a whole hour (or possibly 30mins for some weird time zones) not a random number of minutes.

    What time server is your PC configured to get it's time from? The standard one for Windows is time.windows.com. I've just used an NTP testing tool to query it and it appears to be working OK.

    Its gone back to 14:51 lol, Im using time.windows.com,I tried the one with gov at the end but it had the same outcome.


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  • #12
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,285 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    You might try NetTime - not sure if will run on Win8 as I don't have it


  • #13
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Its still happening and its very annoying :mad:


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