Apparently my desktop didn’t take heed when I posted about DST. I thought I was going to get to bed a little after 3 and get in a good 8 hours - I’ve been robbed! My computer hasn’t re-adjusted itself automatically! Windows 95 could do that!
Seriously though, there is something wrong with Dell computers and telling the time. My desktop will sycronise itself and then within a few days it will be a minute or two out again. It’s turned on all the time so it’s not like it’s without power or even turned off but it can’t hold the time. Nor does it apparently know when DST changes happen as it’s set to automatically update with DST changes.
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March 27th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Mine changed itself, which thoughrally confused me! I thought it was an hour later than it was because it did so!
March 30th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Mine worked fine too.
March 30th, 2007 at 9:24 am
I think you are forgetting some of the basic lessons taught to you in SY12 last year about how computers tell the time. Suffice it to say they are not all that accurate, hence why all modern computers syncronise with a time server every-so-often (the time server in question usually getting its time from an atomic clock).
It is quite common for computers to lose or gain a minute or so after a while of being turned on. At last reboot my server was 10 minutes out and it was only then I realised that I hadn’t setup the syncronise function correctly.
My old computers that didn’t have an internet connection would regularly require adjustments to the time, although turning them off nightly as I used to do did help as the clock was maintained by the motherboard rather than the OS as it is when its powered on.
Make sure you use a reliable timeserver in your windows clock settings and set it to update regularly. Then you shouldn’t have any problems.