Vista time sync off by one hour???

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Dave

Since I've installed vista on my wife's computer, I've had to reset the
clock manually a few times. I finally found out that vista has a feature
that will auto-sync your computer's time on a regular basis to one of
several Internet time servers.

Now the problem.

EACH time vista auto-syncs the time, it turns the clock on my computer back
one hour. In other words, if it is exactly 6PM at time of sync, the clock
will be changed on my computer to 5PM.

I've already checked the obvious . . . I live in the Eastern (U.S.) time
zone, and that is the time zone that Windows Vista is set for.

Maybe I'm missing something else obvious, but how do I correct this? -Dave
 
Since I've installed vista on my wife's computer, I've had to reset the
clock manually a few times. I finally found out that vista has a feature
that will auto-sync your computer's time on a regular basis to one of
several Internet time servers.

Now the problem.

EACH time vista auto-syncs the time, it turns the clock on my computer back
one hour. In other words, if it is exactly 6PM at time of sync, the clock
will be changed on my computer to 5PM.

I've already checked the obvious . . . I live in the Eastern (U.S.) time
zone, and that is the time zone that Windows Vista is set for.

Maybe I'm missing something else obvious, but how do I correct this? -Dave
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Do you use the daylight saving feature?
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html
 
Do you use the daylight saving feature?
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html
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I don't have that box checked in Vista, but what difference should that
make? If the time is synced to an Internet server, it should show the time
on the Internet server, shouldn't it? I guess I could assume that the time
server's time is wrong, but I've tried more than one time server. What are
the odds that more than one of them is wrong? -Dave
 
DaveW said:
Daylight Savings Time?
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As I wrote before, I don't think so. In Vista, I have the box to use DST
UNchecked. However, vista is syncing time automatically on a periodic
basis. When the time is synced, it should be set to the current time on the
time server, shouldn't it? -Dave
 
Dave said:
As I wrote before, I don't think so. In Vista, I have the box to use
DST UNchecked. However, vista is syncing time automatically on a
periodic basis. When the time is synced, it should be set to the
current time on the time server, shouldn't it? -Dave
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As far as I know, the timeservers dont carry
daylight saving time. Your system has to apply
the correction to DST, if you dont mark that
your time is off.
 
As far as I know, the timeservers dont carry
daylight saving time. Your system has to apply
the correction to DST, if you dont mark that
your time is off.
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OK, it seems odd, but it works. If you "trust" vista to adjust for DST,
then the clock shows the right time. -Dave
 
Dave said:
OK, it seems odd, but it works. If you "trust" vista to adjust for DST,
then the clock shows the right time. -Dave
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Why is that odd? Atomic clocks don't magically change when
some countries decide to implement (or change the dates of, in
the case of the U.S. this year) DST.

Windows 2000 users went through hell with this, having to track
down and install Microsoft's TZEDIT utility to manually change
the start and end dates for DST this year.
 
Dave said:
Since I've installed vista on my wife's computer, I've had to reset the clock manually a
few times. I finally found out that vista has a feature that will auto-sync your
computer's time on a regular basis to one of several Internet time servers.

Now the problem.

EACH time vista auto-syncs the time, it turns the clock on my computer back one hour.
In other words, if it is exactly 6PM at time of sync, the clock will be changed on my
computer to 5PM.

I've already checked the obvious . . . I live in the Eastern (U.S.) time zone, and that
is the time zone that Windows Vista is set for.

Maybe I'm missing something else obvious, but how do I correct this? -Dave
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Router in your LAN? Fix the router time. DNS will be one of the places windows looks for
time adjust.
 
I don't have that box checked in Vista, but what difference should that
make?
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What the **** do you think now we're on Daylight Saving? Clue: The
difference is an hour.
If the time is synced to an Internet server, it should show the time
on the Internet server, shouldn't it?
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Only to UTP.
I guess I could assume that the time
server's time is wrong, but I've tried more than one time server. What are
the odds that more than one of them is wrong?
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Nil. User error.
 
As I wrote before, I don't think so. In Vista, I have the box to use DST
UNchecked. However, vista is syncing time automatically on a periodic
basis. When the time is synced, it should be set to the current time on the
time server, shouldn't it? -Dave
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YES YOU ****ING MORON - IT SETS IT TO UTP. Check the Daylight savings
box, retard.
 
OK, it seems odd, but it works. If you "trust" vista to adjust for DST,
Why is that odd? Atomic clocks don't magically change when
some countries decide to implement (or change the dates of, in
the case of the U.S. this year) DST.
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Well the atomic clocks I'm talking about, are located in the same time zones
that DO adjust for DST. So technically, the atomic clocks are off by an
hour, if they do NOT do the DST thing.
 
Dave said:
Well the atomic clocks I'm talking about, are located in the same time zones
that DO adjust for DST. So technically, the atomic clocks are off by an
hour, if they do NOT do the DST thing.
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You don't seem to understand. The clocks NEVER CHANGE.
The only thing that does change is how this time is interpreted.
DST, changes made to DST, time zones etc are part of this
interpretation. They make zero difference to the actual clocks.
 
I don't have that box checked in Vista, but what difference
should that make?
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It makes the difference to get your Windows on right time.
It's Windows that make the daylight saving changes.
 
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