Clock ALWAYS resetting itself 1 hour ahead

[Guest]

Hello to all.

Success!! The problems has been 100% identified and fixed.

Those of you that suspected a software program causing the problem were
right - at least mostly.

Since last update I ran the Spyware software again - no solution. Then...

I have this Oregon Scientific weather station (touchpad display unit)
connected to my computer via a Serial cable so that it is able to communicate
with it's bundled software. when I went through the tedious task of checking
all of my software programs I checked the weather station data software and
it reported the correct time. At that time I assumed no problem there. But
I forgot that the actual weather station itself (hardware display unit) has a
separate clock and in a chance
moment of checking weather conditions I noticed the clock was exactly one
hour ahead! Bling!! (or however you make the light bulb going off in your
head sound) I reset THAT clock intentionally 5 minutes off and sure enough 1
hour later my windows clock was the same 5 minutes off. Since then,
obviously, I have reset all of my clocks to the correct time and 4 hours
later - Success!

Thanks to all of you that helped me - I have learned alot.

P.S. Jim, I did think of setting my computer in the incorrect time zone as a
end-around fix but thank goodness it did not come down to that - I'm way to
anal to live with that!

Roland

I suspect some software is configured for the wrong time zone.
Have you tried changing your time zone to the next one west of you?

ALSO - possibly the start & stop times for daylight savings are in error.
Look in registry. Mine is:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
"Bias"=dword:000001e0
"StandardName"="Pacific Standard Time"
"StandardBias"=dword:00000000
"StandardStart"=hex:00,00,0a,00,05,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"DaylightName"="Pacific Daylight Time"
"DaylightBias"=dword:ffffffc4
"DaylightStart"=hex:00,00,04,00,01,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"ActiveTimeBias"=dword:000001e0

On 11/12/2004 8:05 AM On a whim, roland pounded out on the keyboard


I would run at least one other spyware program. One doesn't do it anymore.

"About Time" was a clock sync program prior to XP. Most don't need it
anymore but you might want to try it out. Be sure to disable the Windows
time sync.


--
Terry

***Reply Note***
Anti-spam measures are included in my email address.
Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.

 

[Ron Bogart]

In

Hello to all.

Success!! The problems has been 100% identified and fixed.

Those of you that suspected a software program causing the problem
were right - at least mostly.

Since last update I ran the Spyware software again - no solution.
Then...

I have this Oregon Scientific weather station (touchpad display unit)
connected to my computer via a Serial cable so that it is able to
communicate with it's bundled software. when I went through the
tedious task of checking all of my software programs I checked the
weather station data software and it reported the correct time. At
that time I assumed no problem there. But I forgot that the actual
weather station itself (hardware display unit) has a separate clock
and in a chance
moment of checking weather conditions I noticed the clock was exactly
one hour ahead! Bling!! (or however you make the light bulb going
off in your head sound) I reset THAT clock intentionally 5 minutes
off and sure enough 1 hour later my windows clock was the same 5
minutes off. Since then, obviously, I have reset all of my clocks to
the correct time and 4 hours later - Success!

Thanks to all of you that helped me - I have learned alot.

P.S. Jim, I did think of setting my computer in the incorrect time
zone as a end-around fix but thank goodness it did not come down to
that - I'm way to anal to live with that!

Roland

I suspect some software is configured for the wrong time zone.
Have you tried changing your time zone to the next one west of you?

ALSO - possibly the start & stop times for daylight savings are in
error. Look in registry. Mine is:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
"Bias"=dword:000001e0
"StandardName"="Pacific Standard Time"
"StandardBias"=dword:00000000
"StandardStart"=hex:00,00,0a,00,05,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"DaylightName"="Pacific Daylight Time"
"DaylightBias"=dword:ffffffc4
"DaylightStart"=hex:00,00,04,00,01,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"ActiveTimeBias"=dword:000001e0

On 11/12/2004 8:05 AM On a whim, roland pounded out on the keyboard

Hi Terry,

Yes I have Ad Aware and ran it as recently as 5 days ago. I'll
run it again though. I thought of auto-synchro'ing every 5
minutes but I can't find an option that allows me to select
frequency of synchro.

I also have had a slow CMOS clock in the past but obviously not
the issue here.

Thanks again and keep trying,,, pleeeeeeeeeeaase........

:


On 11/11/2004 5:18 PM On a whim, roland pounded out on the
keyboard


Dear Unknown,
As mentioned in my original post, I do have the "Auto Daylight
Saving..." box checked.

As far as synchronizing from a incorrectly set server, I am not
on a network (also previously mentioned). I have experimented
with the Auto-Synchro option and have found a synchro site that
works fine. Meaning, when the auto-synchro takes place at the
specified time, my clock is correctly set. But then, anywhere
from 1 to 3 hours later the clock resets itself - all by itself.

As an additional point of info, I have all of the current
Windows XP and IE updates installed.

Roland

:



Also make sure you have a check mark on 'auto adjust for
daylight time' under the time zone tab.


Hi John,

I have done all of what you recommended within the last few
days BUT I am
going to start fresh and do it all again. Also, what you said
about other
programs possibly causing the problem is an area I am going to
check. In
fact, I just checked my Palm PDA and it had the wrong/old time
on it. Although i have not sync'd it in the last week, nor
started the Palm Destop
program, I am going to check that and all of my other programs.

Thanks for the tip and I'll keep you posted.

Roland

:



roland wrote:


I have been struggling with this problem since the most
recent time change
from
Daylight Savings to Standard time. This is also the first
time in 9 years
of
using Windows that Windows has not notified me with a popup
of the clock
being reset the morning after. I am not on a network. I am
in California
and have the correct time zone selected: GMT -08:00,
Pacific. I have
searched the Microsoft help center and made a few changes to
the registry
recommended by Microsoft to force the Windows clock to
synchronize from the
CMOS clock, which I have reset repeatedly. When the Windows
clock resets, it
resets the CMOS clock. I have tried it with
"auto-synchronization" and
without. The auto-sync works, the clock is correct for a
while, and then in
the middle of the day the clock resets itself to one hour
ahead with no input

from me. I have the correct date set. I have checked the
"Automatically

adjust clock for Daylight Saving.." box. My computer is on
all the time.
Nothing seems to help. It seems that the system refuses to
go into Standard
time from Daylight time. Any (advanced) ideas? Please help
me.

No sure why you repost the same query with a different
object. See below
my reply to your post "Clock always one hour ahead":

Just to start from the simplest base possible, I would start:

1/ by unchecking the automatically adjust for daylight saving"
2/ Uncheck in Internet time the "Automatically synchronize..."
3/ adjust the time if necessary and reboot. Make sure the
time is still
correct.

If the time remains correct the next days, you will have to
reverse the
process until the problem reappears (if it does). Then, you
will know what causes the problem.

If this does not take care of the problem, some software you
are using
probably causes the problem. I ran into the same kind of
problem until I
found that a program I used to synchronize folders was
messing up the time. I contacted the developer who recognized
the problem and said they
were working on it.

Keep me posted privately if you would, this issue is of
special interest
to me.

--
John Doue



Have you checked for spyware/malware? I would try at least 2
programs (Spybot, Ad-aware, Spywareblaster). This sounds like
something is forcing the change.

I used to use About Time on client machines prior to XP. It will
sync time at given intervals. Every minute if you choose.

I've also seen old CMOS batteries cause a clock to run faster or
slower, but not jump like you have described.

--
Terry

***Reply Note***
Anti-spam measures are included in my email address.
Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.


I would run at least one other spyware program. One doesn't do it
anymore.

"About Time" was a clock sync program prior to XP. Most don't need
it anymore but you might want to try it out. Be sure to disable the
Windows time sync.


--
Terry

***Reply Note***
Anti-spam measures are included in my email address.
Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.

Congrats! Thnaks for posting back - it would probably be amazing to see how
many times problems are reported and the offending item was another product
that doesn't get reported since everyone is trying to track down Windows
issues.