Okay, I’ve mostly been fine with Windows 8 up until now. But this is downright ridiculous.
The time on my computer started showing 3:28 AM when it was actually 2:28 AM.
Now this is understandable since DST made people put the clock forward an hour and my computer must have it built in to change.
Only problem is, Arizona doesn’t DO DST, so the clock was wrong.
Not a problem, right? I should just be able to adjust the time manually, something I’ve done many times before, as I know how to do simple computer stuff.
So I click on “Change the Date and Time” and put in “2:28AM”.
Urgh, that shit is extremely annoying. That my own computer won’t allow me to change my own TIME on it. I finally had to look up and follow alternative steps in order to change the whole time/date in the system.
Just way more work than is needed, you know? Never had this problem with previous versions of Windows. They’d allow me to change my own damn computer’s TIME, you know?
It sounds like it’s set to the wrong time zone, and since it’s set to one with DST, the time you’re trying to put in doesn’t exist. It would be like putting in a time of 2:92AM.
In the Time Zone settings there’s a specific setting for Arizona, are you set to that? If you’re set to Mountain Time it would appear the system is correct in saying that the specific time and date you entered isn’t valid in that system - just as if you tried to set the date to Feb 30 or whatever.
Yep, I was…and it said the time was 3:28AM.
It was only after I set it to the Baja, California time would it finally “accept” that the time was 2:28AM.
Yep, I just tried the same and it says specifically that DST isn’t observed in this time zone… Change to Mountain Time and it moved forward an hour into DST, then back to GMT (I’m in the UK), and it correctly says DST will start on 30th March here.
Maybe the state of AZ is confused if you actually live in AZ. I don’t know what else it could be.
I tried (again) to move the time back to the one that says “Arizona”, but it’s still off for me (it displays the time as being 5:21AM athough it’s 4:21AM right now).
I guess I’ll keep it on the Baja, California one for now.
I just got new computer with Windows 8 on it. There are a few things I’ve been looking for but haven’t found yet. (Hello, e-mail client?) I’ll be reading this thread over the next couple days looking for tips from those who have gone before me.
Try pressing the Windows key and typing “mail”, and hopefully that’ll bring up the one you want. I use Yahoo mail on the web, so I don’t need Microsoft’s mail client, but that might be the one you want.
If you need a mail client, just install Mozilla Thunderbird - the native Win8 ‘mail’ app is very feature-poor (that’s true of many of the Modern UI apps).
HUH?
What the f*k difference does it make which time zone you are set to?
The guy only wants to change it by one hour!—from 3:28 to 2:28.
I don’t understand the analogies saying this is like typing in 2:92, or Feb 30.
Every time zone on the planet earth has both 3:28 and 2:28. And any computer which doesn’t allow me to change it is just inexcusably, totally, fucked up.
I often change my computer’s date and time for a single case—(for example, I make a minor change to a document that I prepared a year ago, but I want the file to stay with the original date, so it will remain in chronological order within the directory*. So I change my computer to that previous date, open and save the changed document, and then immediately set my computer back to today’s date and time.
Are you telling me that Windows 8 won’t let me do this?
That’s fucked up beyond belief!
*yes, (heh, heh)… I said “directory”.
That’s what it was called in DOS, and there was zero need to change the terminology.
Why “folder”?
Hell, they could have called them “binders”, too(…like Mitt Romney’s famous commment “binders of women” ) But they chose “directory”, and everybody understood it.It was a common word that everybody understood–after all, we had all kept a telephone directory in our house for years before Bill Gates was even born…
2:28 AM on March 9th 2014 is not a valid time in most of United States (although it was in Arizona). As in, there was never any point in time at which it was 2:28 AM. It did not exist.
HUH???
HUH???
(seriously…fight my ignorance here…I’m baffled.
Today is March 9, 2014.
How can there not be a 2:28?
Every single day I have been alive (and for several billion years before that).has consisted of 24 hours, numbered from 0:00 to 23:59, or 1 to 12, AM/Pm.
There is a 2:28 every single day.
And if I want to set my computer FORWARD, to tomorrow’s date or any other date I choose why does Windows prevent me?
What am I not understanding?
Daylight saving time started today in most of the United States. The clock went from 1:59 to 3:00. There was no 2:28 today for those of us who were awake in these parts of the country. This happens every year. If your computer is set to the local time in an area that observes DST, then there is no way for it to convert 2:28 AM to whatever standard time it uses internally.
Idle Thoughts’ computer seems to have been correctly set to not observe DST, but did it anyways. Since it thought that DST had just started, it correctly said that it was impossible for it to be 2:28. This is bizarre, but does not seem to be a universal problem in Windows 8.
Okay.
So I suppose my computer won’t let me set the date to September 3, 1752, either?
(That’s when the Gregorian calendar erased 10 days, and the world moved from Sept 2 to Sept 14th overnight.
It’s a good thing they were still using CP/M back then.)
When dealing with DST, it might be better to set to a similar timezone that does not observe DST, then set it manually. eg in Australia, Queensland and Victoria have the same timezone, but Queensland doesn’t do DST.
Well, I think I found the mail client, but it prompts me for a Microsoft account before it will do anything. I don’t have a Microsoft account, and am not sure that I want one. I just want to read my e-mail.
Or do I? I assume the Microsoft account is so that I can sync my e-mail and read it across multiple devices, which is not a bad idea, really. I’ll probably get a smart phone soon, and it would be nice to see the same e-mails on it that I do at home. But I’m sure there are other apps for that, and I probably won’t get a Windows phone.
I don’t know what else it could be.
) But they chose “directory”, and everybody understood it.It was a common word that everybody understood–after all, we had all kept a telephone directory in our house for years before Bill Gates was even born…