clock time off

[sacard]

I am running windows xp on a hp machine and the clock
lose 3 hr of time all the time.The minutes never change
just the hour. the computer is only about a year and half
old I do not belive it is the battery.any Ideas? thank
you.

 

[doc]

-----Original Message-----
I am running windows xp on a hp machine and the clock
lose 3 hr of time all the time.The minutes never change
just the hour. the computer is only about a year and half
old I do not belive it is the battery.any Ideas? thank
you.
.

Try a new battery, even though it's not very old. The
clock gets it's time from the system clock, which is
powered solely by the battery.
doc

 

[Gary Davis]

Your computer is set for the wrong time zone.
Double click on the clock in the right corner and select the "time zone" tab
at the top.
Make sure your computer is set for your time zone.

 

[Guest]

THANKS THAT IS WHAT IS WAS, SET TO THE WRONG TIME ZONE

 

[Alex Nichol]

Try a new battery, even though it's not very old. The
clock gets it's time from the system clock, which is
powered solely by the battery.
doc

Windows only checks the on board real time clock so as to start the
windows clock at power-on. A failed battery shows as wildly incorrect
time at boot; any change after that is *not* the battery.

This jump by hours looks like a failure in daylight saving corrections
- as if the internet time adjustment service is coming in to reset the
time and the DST offset is getting added in again, and again. Or if the
machine is connected to a domain network and there is a similar
disagreement with that (possibly over time-zones in that case).

I'd look at the time zone setting in Data and Time, check the the zone
is right, and try changing the 'correct for Daylight saving' setting