Its always march 10th on my PC...win xp

[millervt]

Ever since the DST change, my PC is always on March 10th, roughly around midnight. I can't change it...I open up the clock, and make the time correct, but when I click APPLY (or OK) it just reverts back to march 10th, 11:45Pm or so. I tried applying the latest DST patch from microsoft, says it is already applied (which is no doubt true, since I have auto updates on, and this is when the trouble started...). I tried various options like changing the month and year and such to maybe force it to let me change, but to no avail. The internet time synchronization fails since it isn't on the right date. Any ideas? I worry about file corruption if the clock is being screwy...thanks!

 

[ineedaname]

did you try changing the date in the bios?

Or maybe ur cmos battery is dead?

 

[Pwnbroker]

Is March 10th Groundhog's Day? Nah, didn't think so. I wonder if an OS repair would fix it?

The Cmos battery wouldn't keep the time and date from changing, it would just keep it from saving, so that when he shuts down, date and time are lost. It would then revert to whatever time it was when the chip was made every time he booted.

 

[millervt]

thanks for the thought of changing the time in BIOS..which is also wrong, but I can change it to the right date (not sure if it will keep up with the right date tomorrow...)..but in windows, it refuses to change the date from the BIOS date. So I can set it to today, march 13th, in the BIOS, and then that is the date in windows, but if I try to change the date to a wrong one it won't let me. I'll check the dell site for updated BIOS and such, maybe the BIOS will work now that I've gotten it past the wrong date and windows will keep up...