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[msg]

Every few days the clock on my computer jumps back exactly one hour. Each

time, I manually reset the correct time. I have the right time zone, date,

etc. I have XP. Can anyone tell me whats happening every few days to make

this happen?

 

[philo]

msg wrote:

> Every few days the clock on my computer jumps back exactly one hour. Each

> time, I manually reset the correct time. I have the right time zone, date,

> etc. I have XP. Can anyone tell me whats happening every few days to make

> this happen?







Have you been keeping up on your Windows updates?



the parameters for DST have changed

 

[db]

maybe the machine

thinks it is a different

time/zone.



you should double

check it.



right click on clock>

properties>zone



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"msg" wrote in message news:9D2B1449-188B-4932-AC7C-FA137DE3EC77@microsoft.com...

> Every few days the clock on my computer jumps back exactly one hour. Each

> time, I manually reset the correct time. I have the right time zone, date,

> etc. I have XP. Can anyone tell me whats happening every few days to make

> this happen?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:47:01 -0700, msg

wrote:



> Every few days the clock on my computer jumps back exactly one hour. Each

> time, I manually reset the correct time. I have the right time zone, date,

> etc. I have XP. Can anyone tell me whats happening every few days to make

> this happen?





But you probably don't have it set properly to use DST.





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[John Wunderlich]

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news:9D2B1449-188B-4932-AC7C-FA137DE3EC77@microsoft.com:



> Every few days the clock on my computer jumps back exactly one

> hour. Each time, I manually reset the correct time. I have the

> right time zone, date, etc. I have XP. Can anyone tell me whats

> happening every few days to make this happen?



Probably your System has not been updated to use the newer dates for

the switch to Daylight Savings time (now occurs in March instead of the

first Sunday in April). Despite your setting your clock, your system

is going on the network and resetting your clock to a time server

somewhere on the network.



A couple things you can do:



o Update your computer to recognize current Time Zone dates:

"August 2009 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows

operating systems"





o Stop the service that sets your computer to network server time

Start->Run-> w32tm /unregister



o Wait until next Sunday when your computer should switch to Daylight

time - at which time you will be in sync with the world again.



HTH,

John

 

[Fuzzy]

On 3/31/2010 01:47 AM, msg wrote:

> Every few days the clock on my computer jumps back exactly one hour. Each

> time, I manually reset the correct time. I have the right time zone, date,

> etc. I have XP. Can anyone tell me whats happening every few days to make

> this happen?

Do you have the latest dst update from Microsoft updates. If you do then

I would change the CMOS battery on the motherboard, it is a large button

battery usually a 2032 button battery or equivalent.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:41:34 -0400, Fuzzy

wrote:



> On 3/31/2010 01:47 AM, msg wrote:

> > Every few days the clock on my computer jumps back exactly one hour. Each

> > time, I manually reset the correct time. I have the right time zone, date,

> > etc. I have XP. Can anyone tell me whats happening every few days to make

> > this happen?

> Do you have the latest dst update from Microsoft updates. If you do then

> I would change the CMOS battery on the motherboard, it is a large button

> battery usually a 2032 button battery or equivalent.





The problem is definitely *not* the battery. There are two reasons why

that's so:



1. "Exactly one hour" would not occur of it were the battery. The

change would vary and it never be exactly anything.



2. The battery is used only when the computer is powered off. A

battery problem would manifest itself only when the computer was

powered on. It wouldn't occur while the computer was running.





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