Incorrect Date/Time

Could someone explain how having the incorrect date or time on the PC
prevent them from applying an upgrade to their machine.
This may be a dumb question , but how does the upgrade know or care if I
have my PC set to Eastern Standard time or Hawaii time.

Gary R

Your ISP and your computer both have time stamps, if they
don't match within some parameter, the Windows server sees a
problem and won't update.


"G Roma" <> wrote in message
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| Could someone explain how having the incorrect date or
time on the PC
| prevent them from applying an upgrade to their machine.
| This may be a dumb question , but how does the upgrade
know or care if I
| have my PC set to Eastern Standard time or Hawaii time.
|
| Gary R
|
|

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:55:30 -0500, "G Roma" <>
wrote:

>Could someone explain how having the incorrect date or time on the PC
>prevent them from applying an upgrade to their machine.
>This may be a dumb question , but how does the upgrade know or care if I
>have my PC set to Eastern Standard time or Hawaii time.

It doesn't care what timezone you set. It knows the time/date your
system thinks it is because that information is passed along.
It converts everything to UTC (or GMT, if you wish) so everything has
the same timezone basis.
And then it compares what your system thinks the time/date is to what
its system thinks the time/date is (which is reset every so often from
one of the official time servers).
And if your time/date doesn't fall within "X" hours (or days) of its
time/date then there's apparently a (big) problem with your system and
won't allow it to upgrade/update until that discrepancy is rectified.

--
dak
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