What happened to my clock?

I allowed several windoze updates tonight. I didn't really pay attention
before they installed, but sometime after they were done I noticed that the
system time is 1 hour behind. The time zone is correct and the use daylight
savings time box is checked. The time was correct yesterday for sure.
Anybody else experience this. I uninstalled the updates, but that did not
reset the time. I did that manually, but now I'm not sure I trust the whole
auto daylight savings time change thing. I suppose there is nothing to worry
about until the fall, but the whole incident ****es me off.

mike

"Mike" <> wrote in message news:H4iul.117531$...
>I allowed several windoze updates tonight. I didn't really pay attention
> before they installed, but sometime after they were done I noticed that the
> system time is 1 hour behind. The time zone is correct and the use daylight
> savings time box is checked. The time was correct yesterday for sure.

> Anybody else experience this.


Do you have more than one partition?
If so, you must either disable daylight saving time change
on one of them or manually change the time after booting
into the other OS after the first one makes the change
correctly.

I think an alternative may be to use the Windows Time
service. I'm not sure how we are supposed to configure that...

<title>How to synchronize the time with the Windows Time service in Windows XP</title>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307897

(Microsoft Search for
"windows time" service
)

Hmm... you haven't disclosed your OS...

Looks as if there were other problems with that
for W2003 Server users.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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> I uninstalled the updates, but that did not
> reset the time. I did that manually, but now I'm not sure I trust the whole
> auto daylight savings time change thing. I suppose there is nothing to worry
> about until the fall, but the whole incident ****es me off.
>
> mike
>
>

What's your operating system? What service pack level is installed?

Your problem sounds like you don't have DST (daylight saving time) patch
installed. It is normal if you don't have DST patch because the 'old' DST is
supposed to start on March 29 at 2:00 a.m. Since your PC does not have DST
patch, it thinks that DST has not started yet. Therefore it's 1 hour behind.

"Mike" <> wrote in message
news:H4iul.117531$...
>I allowed several windoze updates tonight. I didn't really pay attention
>before they installed, but sometime after they were done I noticed that the
>system time is 1 hour behind. The time zone is correct and the use daylight
>savings time box is checked. The time was correct yesterday for sure.
>Anybody else experience this. I uninstalled the updates, but that did not
>reset the time. I did that manually, but now I'm not sure I trust the whole
>auto daylight savings time change thing. I suppose there is nothing to
>worry about until the fall, but the whole incident ****es me off.
>
> mike
>

"John" <a> wrote in message news:OILFlZ$...
> What's your operating system? What service pack level is installed?
>
> Your problem sounds like you don't have DST (daylight saving time) patch
> installed. It is normal if you don't have DST patch because the 'old' DST
> is supposed to start on March 29 at 2:00 a.m. Since your PC does not have
> DST patch, it thinks that DST has not started yet. Therefore it's 1 hour
> behind.
>

No, I have XP home SP3 and I keep it updated. The clock changed properly on
the 9th. It rolled itself back an hour sometime after updates on 3/12. I
removed all the updates that installed on 3/12 and reset the clock. I have
let windows reinstall those updates as well as a couple of different ones
and the time has remained the same. One other thing I noticed was that the
selection for the internet time server (I use a military one, not the
windows one) had also changed back to time.windows.com. After reinstalling
what I imagined to be the offending updates, all has remained as it should
be. I really hate one-time anomalous behavior.

mike

I have been experiencing the exact same behavior. I'm running XP Pro SP2.

"Mike" wrote:

>
> "John" <a> wrote in message news:OILFlZ$...
> > What's your operating system? What service pack level is installed?
> >
> > Your problem sounds like you don't have DST (daylight saving time) patch
> > installed. It is normal if you don't have DST patch because the 'old' DST
> > is supposed to start on March 29 at 2:00 a.m. Since your PC does not have
> > DST patch, it thinks that DST has not started yet. Therefore it's 1 hour
> > behind.
> >
>
> No, I have XP home SP3 and I keep it updated. The clock changed properly on
> the 9th. It rolled itself back an hour sometime after updates on 3/12. I
> removed all the updates that installed on 3/12 and reset the clock. I have
> let windows reinstall those updates as well as a couple of different ones
> and the time has remained the same. One other thing I noticed was that the
> selection for the internet time server (I use a military one, not the
> windows one) had also changed back to time.windows.com. After reinstalling
> what I imagined to be the offending updates, all has remained as it should
> be. I really hate one-time anomalous behavior.
>
> mike
>
>
>