Frequent system Date/Time automatical change incorrectly

[Jack]

It is a very small company.
We have only one Win2000 server (the PDC). From time to
time(once or twice a month), I found that the system
date/time of the computer was changed automatically and
incorrectly. The date was always changed to year 2020,
while it keeps the month/day part unchanged. For example,
if today is 2002/01/08, the date will be changed to
2020/01/08. if today is 2003/06/07, the date will be
changed to 2020/06/07.

There is no other machine in our local network that has
this incorrect date/time. And our company use a ADSL for
Internet connection.

W32Time service is not running so feels like the wrong
date/time is not coming from the Internet.

Everytime the system changes to a different Date, so feels
like it is not the CMOS Battery problem.

To me, feels like this a Y2K-related problem which the
system take the first two digits of year(20??)as the last
two digits of the year. So year 20AB became year 2020.
Anybody have an idea?

Thanks!

 

[Bill Peele [MS]]

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From: "Jack" <[email protected]>
Subject: Frequent system Date/Time automatical change incorrectly
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:23:31 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general

It is a very small company.
We have only one Win2000 server (the PDC). From time to
time(once or twice a month), I found that the system
date/time of the computer was changed automatically and
incorrectly. The date was always changed to year 2020,
while it keeps the month/day part unchanged. For example,
if today is 2002/01/08, the date will be changed to
2020/01/08. if today is 2003/06/07, the date will be
changed to 2020/06/07.

There is no other machine in our local network that has
this incorrect date/time. And our company use a ADSL for
Internet connection.

W32Time service is not running so feels like the wrong
date/time is not coming from the Internet.

Everytime the system changes to a different Date, so feels
like it is not the CMOS Battery problem.

To me, feels like this a Y2K-related problem which the
system take the first two digits of year(20??)as the last
two digits of the year. So year 20AB became year 2020.
Anybody have an idea?

Thanks!

--

Jack,

How often does the year change? When this happens what does the BIOS show for the year? I ask becuase if the BIOS
shows 1920 then Windows 2000 will display 2020. Also, when this happens what do we get if we boot from a DOS boot
floppy and run the Date command? Check Services for Time Service, which is a old Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit utility
called Timeserv. If we find this we want to remove it.

Bill Peele
Microsoft Enterprise Support

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