Bob thanks for your reply, I guess I probably miscommunicated what I
was trying to achieve.
To trace a software bug for QA purposes, we would like to change the
current syncing of the Windows XP system time, say, back to April 01,
2008. I'm not talking about completely freezing the system time, just
be able to change the date back to a certain date.
I remember this used to be possible if you login as a system
administrator in Windows 95 or 98 and just double click on the system
tray, and just change the date right there. Windows 95 (or 98)
wouldn't try to "sync" the system date/time with another network
source (or based on hardware). However it seems that this is not the
case with Windows XP. I have tried the following but the system time
would still "sync" with a source somewhere and change the date/time
back to the current date.
1. Manually stop the "Windows Time Service" (by running the
"services.msc" then click on "Services" tab, then right click on the
"Windows Time" service to stop it
2. Disable the network (to avoid XP try to sync with other
workstations with system time)
After I did the above two, then change the system date/time, it would
still sync with a source (somewhere, maybe the hardware CMOS clock?)
and change the system date/time back to current. Is there a easy way
(other than setting up a SNTP time server) to do this? Many thanks!
