Re: Windows Clock gains 24 hours

Open your BIOS and make sure the day, date and time
are set correctly therein.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
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"Nigel" wrote:

| Before I describe the problem, let me say that I have done a scan of the
| machine with Spybot, AdAware and VET Antivirus. I'm running Windows XP Home
| SP2
|
| The Windows clock will GAIN exactly 24 hours at random - the machine is on
| 24/7 via a ZyXel 660H DSL router. My time zone is correctly set (GMT +8h no
| daylight saving), and I have tried enabling and disabling the time server
| synchronisation option in the Time & Date properties without success. I have
| manually synchronised the clock using a free program called WebTime that
| connects to atomic clock time servers, but this makes no difference. When the
| Windows clock is wrong, the wrong time is also displayed in the BIOS
| settings. The router also synchronises to a time server (a different one),
| but the router time is never incorrect. Interestingly, the clock told me that
| today was Thursday instead of Wednesday, and when I chose 'update now' to
| synchronise with time.windows.com in the time/date properties, it says that
| time has successfully been synchronised with time.windows.com , yet STILL
| gave me Thursday 9th as the synchronised date. The computer is only six
| months old, so I don't immediately suspect the clock battery - particularly
| as the clock leaps forward exactly one day and doesn't accrue several minutes
| over a period of time.
|
| For those who know what these things mean, I have included some additional
| info below. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
|
| SNTP value is: time.windows.com,0x1
|
| Windows IP Configuration
|
| Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : xxx
| Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
| Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
| IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
| WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
|
| Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
|
| Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
| Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast
| Eth
| ernet NIC
| Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : xxx
| Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
| Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
| IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.33
| Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
| Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
| DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
| DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
| Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, 9 March 2006 8:26:04 PM
| Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, 12 March 2006 8:26:04 PM

.

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