Computer Clock Misbehaving

[hajach]

Two weeks ago I noticed my computer clock was half an hour slow, next day it was about one hour slow. It stayed that way for a few days, I decided to go and buy a new battery, before I went to get it I checked the clock and was amazed to find it showing the correct time

The clock continued to show the correct time for a week or so, then I looked at it today and it was more than one hour slow again.

To me this all seems strange, could someone advise me what is happening please.

Regards Hajach

Windows XP

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

It sounds like it could be a battery problem, and they are not too expensive to replace so it is worth a shot.

It is probably going back to correct time because windows checks the correct time every now and again.

[Panama Red]

I agree with WTBF. Windows Time Service provides a weekly (I think) time adjustment. Since that's one of the Services I disable, any deviation is time is a good indication of a dying mobo battery. Just to be safe, you might want to also check your Time Zone setting. All too often it is still at the default Pacific Time Zone.

[glc]

All too often it is still at the default Pacific Time Zone.

Of course! The world as per M$ revolves around Redmond WA, right?

[rjfvillarosa]

Originally Posted by glc Of course! The world as per M$ revolves around Redmond WA, right?

I am beginning to believe you on this one GL, once more after last Tuesdays updates windows changed all my time settings again I think I am about to switch off "time services" as suggested to me by PR.


On a side note to this one I just had a machine in that would not update itself and was terribly slow on the internet, I ran every scan you could think of and found nothing of any significance. After interogating my god daughter at gun point it turns out the computer clock keeps changing itself. YES you guessed it, the mobo battery was dead and nothing would update because it was always reading January 1st 2003, still haven't quite worked out why it made surfing the net slow unless it was a time synchronisation thing.

[Statica]

The time services will not change the timezone, it is not the programmatic design. Heck if you dont want to use time.windows.come you could use time.nist.gov ; this is not a case of Redmond being the center of the universe. I would suggest that it is symptomatic of some other issue or conflict with another program that has caused a change in the time zone. What is of issue is that Windows OS' do not stress the importance of the system time as being a CORE system process and lets pretty much anything change it.

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I would suspect the mobo battery as well in the case at hand, even if the clock is set to a timezone that is not correct it still wouldnt lose random amounts of time (Redmond is not floating about on a different axis )

[hajach]

Many thanks for your help, this forum is wonderful for novices like me.