My clock is now setting back one hour all the time ...

[StargateFanFromWork]

This started happening a couple of weekends ago. It happened then, then
this past weekend, then yesterday and again this morning.

What could be causing this, pls? I seem to always having nice and nifty
little challenges pop up with this new computer <sigh>. This is rather
critical, however, as my computer has wakeup alarms on it and all sorts of
reminders pop up throughout the day. Luckily I've still been using my old
clock radio otherwise I'd have been in trouble yesterday and today since the
alarms are starting up one hour too late.

I've reset from the systray and even via the control panel but at some point
it goes back that one hour.

I know that most computers are set to update the time from the internet but
I think I'd like to switch that off and manually keep an eye on it myself.
The single biggest problem I have with XP is how bloody-minded it is about
going its own way no matter what I say or do <lol>. Since the computer is
only 3 months old and I'm not having any other problems that could be
battery-related, I've discounted that as a reason at this point.

At any rate, any comments re fixing this most welcome. Cheers. D

 

[gls858]

This started happening a couple of weekends ago. It happened then, then
this past weekend, then yesterday and again this morning.

What could be causing this, pls? I seem to always having nice and nifty
little challenges pop up with this new computer <sigh>. This is rather
critical, however, as my computer has wakeup alarms on it and all sorts of
reminders pop up throughout the day. Luckily I've still been using my old
clock radio otherwise I'd have been in trouble yesterday and today since the
alarms are starting up one hour too late.

I've reset from the systray and even via the control panel but at some point
it goes back that one hour.

I know that most computers are set to update the time from the internet but
I think I'd like to switch that off and manually keep an eye on it myself.
The single biggest problem I have with XP is how bloody-minded it is about
going its own way no matter what I say or do <lol>. Since the computer is
only 3 months old and I'm not having any other problems that could be
battery-related, I've discounted that as a reason at this point.

At any rate, any comments re fixing this most welcome. Cheers. D

Did you run the recommended fixes for daylight savings time?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone.mspx

gls858

 

[StargateFanFromWork]

StargateFanFromWork wrote:
[snip]

Did you run the recommended fixes for daylight savings time?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone.mspx

[snip]

No, I didn't know about them, but I will look at this tonight and run any
fix(es). It's the damned inconsistency with this box that is hard to work
with. Had this happened right from the get-go and always, I would have
figured it out to be related to the recent DST change. But the time updated
automatically, like my old Win98SE box, and then I forgot about that issue
<sigh>. Thanks.

 

[gls858]

StargateFanFromWork wrote:
[snip]

Did you run the recommended fixes for daylight savings time?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone.mspx

[snip]

No, I didn't know about them, but I will look at this tonight and run any
fix(es). It's the damned inconsistency with this box that is hard to work
with. Had this happened right from the get-go and always, I would have
figured it out to be related to the recent DST change. But the time updated
automatically, like my old Win98SE box, and then I forgot about that issue
<sigh>. Thanks.

Hope it fixes your problem.

gls858

 

[crazyal]

could it be the clock battery on the mother bord

 

[gls858]

could it be the clock battery on the mother bord

I thought about that too. But the OP said there were reminders and
alarms set that were an hour late and it started a couple of weeks ago.
DST started March 11. Just about 2 weeks ago.

gls858