Emily Proctor
Why doesn't my WIndows Vista computer tell me the correct time? My watch says it is 6:15 (an hour and 15 minutes until my intramural basketball game tipoff -- why aren't I stretching?) and my computer says that it is 5:05. When I reset the time it goes back to something wrong. The difference in right/wrong times does not appear to follow a system.
Ugh.
It seems likely that this is a serious problem if more than the hour is wrong.
The two likely possibilities are :
1. The battery/battery IC on the motherboard that powers the RTC (Real Time Clock) is exhausted.
2. Some kind of virus is interfering with the timekeeping function.
Good Luck, Don
Posted by: Don Lloyd | March 19, 2008 at 08:19 PM
Biggest problem is probably "Vista".
But check your time zone setting, and see if you are talking to a viable "Internet Time" source.
Posted by: Larry Sheldon | March 19, 2008 at 08:22 PM
Larry,
I changed the time synchronization from time.windows.com to time.nist.gov. Maybe that will help.
Posted by: John Whitehead | March 19, 2008 at 09:46 PM
Don,
Yikes! And, obviously, it is a relatively new computer.
Posted by: John Whitehead | March 19, 2008 at 09:48 PM
Did time.nist.gov solve your problem?
Posted by: ... | March 20, 2008 at 03:56 PM
Yes! It seems to have worked. The time is now 4:28.
Posted by: John Whitehead | March 22, 2008 at 04:29 PM