Not the central clock that says when each step in every process happens, but the one that shows up in the bottom right corner of the screen. Both it and my wind-up ex-Soviet wristwatch were reset at 5:23PM. The HP says it’s 6:11 but the Russkies say it is 9:03 and I think they are right. I’ve never heard of this happening, and I go back to when most of these clocks were burned in some guy’s basement and piggy-backed on the CPU. Could it be that my BIOS backup battery is dying?
Possibly. If you go into the BIOS, is the time okay there, or does it reset with every restart? If you need to replace the battery, it is easy and cheap.
For the last couple of years my computer clock would randomly lose 5 minutes here and there, and sometimes say it was AM instead of PM. Sometimes it would be an hour off. I never did anything about it, and about a month ago it started keeping time again. I know this is completely unhelpful, but I thought I’d share. You are not alone.
This happened to me recently. I don’t know why. I would open the clock management page, and set it to follow the NIST time, but nothing ever changed.
Finally I found that if your internal clock is more than 18 hours off of the proper time, the auto update function won’t! So. Manually set your clock close if you like, then under the Internet tab, select “Automatically synch with an internet time server” and click “Apply”.
Viola, you’ll be back on time in no time!
Computer “clocks” going off is often a result of the CMOS battery getting old or failing.
/just saying. It’s an easy fix, just replace the thing. But yeah, time servers will not update properly if your compy is off by several hours.
That seems to have been it. The time has changed twice in the past 2.5 minutes. Thanks!