strange computer clock problem. never seen this before...

[Kiad]

I bought a new computer for the office. Everything works fine except the clock on the computer keeps pushing itself back 3 hours after I set the clock correctly. For example, I would set the clock at 12:00pm, and in 10 minutes, it would read 9:10AM.

This happens when u reset the computer as well....

At first I thought it was a battery issue, but since it always reverts 3 hours, looks like it could be something else.

 

[alpha88]

You probably need to set the timezone correctly - windows will adjust your clock to internet time, taking into account your timezone.

 

[AMCRambler]

Originally posted by: alpha88
You probably need to set the timezone correctly - windows will adjust your clock to internet time, taking into account your timezone.

Yeah, sounds like the time zone might be set incorrectly. You can change the time zone, if it's still messed up, go into the windows services list and disable the windows time service. That will stop it from syncing with a time server on the web. If you're still having problems, could be a bad cmos battery although, that doesn't sound very likely if it does 3 hour increments every time.