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- on Tue 31 Mar 2009
- 12:37:58 PM UTC
Not all places observe Daylight Savings time
Plus the rules are different for each region in the country where you are and for example the province of Saskatchewan here in Canada does not observe Daylight Savings time:
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- on Tue 31 Mar 2009
- 12:51:03 PM UTC
CMOS Battery?
Just a thought, as the CMOS battery can affect time.
I had one that was dying a few years ago, the time was forever changing and eventually I got the BSOD as the battery failed!
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000239.htm -
- on Tue 31 Mar 2009
- 06:15:58 PM UTC
good point
I assumed that others were like me; change the CMOS battery once a year.
I know they last longer than that, but my memory as to "when did I change it" works like FlyAqua's current clock - not reliable. So I got into the habit of "Spring Ahead" and I spring for a new CMOS battery for each PC, and yes they were recently changed :-)-------
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- on Wed 01 Apr 2009
- 01:09:25 AM UTC
I haven't had a CMOS battery die on me yet
I haven't had a CMOS battery die on me yet but then the systems are always plugged in and the power bar is never turned off as the system draws a small amount of power while powered off that keeps the CMOS battery charged up I believe.
My old 2.4GHZ P4 system is 6 years old and it still has its original CMOS battery but I do have one on hand just in case I need it and check its voltage on my Birthday. -
- on Wed 01 Apr 2009
- 12:48:51 PM UTC
CMOS battery and the computer's clock
What is a CMOS battery? I'm using an Acer Aspire 8920G portable with Window's Vesta Professionan pre-installed. It's less than 1 year old. The clock sometimes resets itself, just the hours so I have to reset this from the control panel. Usually the battery has been fully charged as I work using mains power.
Richard142 -
- on Wed 01 Apr 2009
- 07:35:06 PM UTC
CMOS battery
What is a CMOS battery, and why does my computer need one?
http://kb.iu.edu/data/adoy.htmlGoogle is your friend.
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- on Wed 01 Apr 2009
- 10:14:45 PM UTC
Instead
I understand that some computers, partcularly laptops, have a slow disharging capacitor instead of a battery. This capacitor supposedly charges up whenever the laptop is on AC.
I'm really not familiar with that technology, and don't even know if it actually exists, though it sounds plausible. Read about it somewhere.
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- on Fri 03 Apr 2009
- 02:39:18 PM UTC
Instead
I don't have the same time showing! in my task bar the digital clock shows 12:51 the analog desktop clock shows 11.56 while sent emails show yet another time. Also I don't know if the CMOS is a battery or a capacitor. None of this is life threatening. Now my desktop clock seems to have stopped!
Yesturday my toolbar clock showed the wrong time and when I rebooted today still showed the same time lapse so I changed it from the control panel. then both toolbar and desktop clocks showed the same. Having a real time clock on the wall beside me may I just ignore all this?
Richard142 -
- on Fri 03 Apr 2009
- 05:08:24 PM UTC
My watch has stopped
This is like a Peter Seller's routine in one of the Pink Panther movies where they are trying to synchronize their watches.
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- on Sat 04 Apr 2009
- 04:27:48 AM UTC
Same thing, my e-mails are
Same thing, my e-mails are also at a different time they were actually sent.
Summer time ends here tomorrow, let's see what happens then.
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- on Sat 04 Apr 2009
- 08:54:29 AM UTC
Server
How much are your emails off? I ask this because I think your emails are actually time stamped by your ISP server, not by your machine. Not sure about this, so maybe someone more experienced can confirm or deny.
Would also be interesting to see what email time stamp any of your recipients are seeing.
If you use TB, there is a time stamp add on . . . "Timestamp 0.5.1"
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- on Sat 04 Apr 2009
- 09:23:00 AM UTC
1 hour. I just found out
1 hour.
I just found out that back home summer time began 1 week ago while it ends here today, so maybe that's what caused it.
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- on Wed 01 Apr 2009
- 04:05:24 AM UTC
Well, would an empty battery
Well, would an empty battery really result in the time jumping forwad and backward for exactly an hour all the time?
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- on Wed 01 Apr 2009
- 04:55:25 AM UTC
Odd
It would certainly be very odd for that to happen, but it is a possibility :-)
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- on Wed 01 Apr 2009
- 08:16:52 AM UTC
What operating system (OS) are you running?
I seem to remember that a fix was required for Windows that was needed to be installed to change the OS to incorporate the new rules for Daylight Savings Time change:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951072 <== this might be a slow retrieval so have patienceDisable Automatic Daylight Savings time check in Windows clock and use Set Your Computer Clock Via the Internet :
http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm which is what I use.The Internet did not die due to Conficker yet.
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- on Wed 01 Apr 2009
- 11:07:18 AM UTC
Win98Silly Edition is what it is known by
XP is nice but it takes a bit to get used to.
Did you install the Daylight Savings Time rules update recommended in Microsoft's Knowledge Base article?
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- on Wed 01 Apr 2009
- 07:06:38 AM UTC
have you tried
How to synchronize the time with the Windows Time service in Windows XP
Dealing With Windows Vista Time Sync Problems
NIST Internet Time Servers
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My clock is making me crazy
Hi everyone,
one day here I noticed that the time on my laptop was one hour behind. Alright, I thought, so I set it back to the correct time. The next day, the time was one hour ahead of the real time! This time, I did not set the clock to see what happens - and soon, the clock showed the correct time again.
I haven't watched it for a while since then but yesterday afternoon, the clock showed something like 5.30 when it was in fact 4.30. Nevertheless, I did not set it to the correct time. So, when my clock showed 10.50, I thought it obviously was only 9.50 in fact. But - the time on my laptop was right (which got me into kinda serious trouble)!
I have just been checking again and noticed that right now, the time is one hour ahead AGAIN. Is this a sign for anything? (Of course, always the same clocks were used to verify the time)
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