My computer is living in the past

[puddleglum]

Five minutes to be precise. Every day when I turn my computer on the clock is five minutes slow. If I change the clock to the correct time it is fine the rest of the day. However, the next day when I turn it on it is five minutes slow. What is causing this?

[Waddle]

its the y2k bug! or it could be that your computer cpu is getting over loaded when you boot up you machiene

[mblackwell]

This is a total WAG, but maybe the CMOS battery is low.

[Saltire]

Are you on a network? I have Win98, and it seems to synch its clock to the server when I log in. This was really irritating when the IT people failed, for almost a week, to adjust it for the change to daylight time last spring.

[puddleglum]

Saltire, That makes sense, I think you've hit the nail on the head.

[smaft]

We had a similar 7-minute discrepancy for, oh, I don't know, three years before the network server's clock was changed. All the while, the cash registers showed the wrong time (sounds trivial but actually a significant problem here).

What did our intrepid IT people do all this time? They kept suggesting clerks reset Windows' clock everytime they logged in. Yes, that's a much more efficient solution, guys. Thanks.