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WinXP clock

S

shank

Flightless Bird
Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's available?

I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5 minutes
off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. It's now about 15
minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again. Historically, evidently, it's
always 5 minutes off which makes me believe it is syncing with something I'm
not aware of. How do I troubleshoot this?

thanks
 
B

Bob

Flightless Bird
The system clock is losing time or not keeping time accurately.

http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/mbsys/cmosLosingTime-c.html



"shank" <shank@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's available?
>
> I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5 minutes
> off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. It's now about 15
> minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again. Historically, evidently,
> it's always 5 minutes off which makes me believe it is syncing with
> something I'm not aware of. How do I troubleshoot this?
>
> thanks
>
 
J

John Wunderlich

Flightless Bird
"shank" <shank@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in
news:-OSiYthG$KHA.3880@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:

> Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's
> available?
>
> I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5
> minutes off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour.
> It's now about 15 minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again.
> Historically, evidently, it's always 5 minutes off which makes me
> believe it is syncing with something I'm not aware of. How do I
> troubleshoot this?
>
> thanks
>
>


"How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows XP"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314054>

Skip about 1/3 down the page to the paragraph titled:
"Configuring the Windows Time service to use an external time source"

HTH,
John
 
V

Volunteer J

Flightless Bird
shank wrote:
> Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's available?
>
> I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5
> minutes off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. It's
> now about 15 minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again.
> Historically, evidently, it's always 5 minutes off which makes me
> believe it is syncing with something I'm not aware of. How do I
> troubleshoot this?
> thanks

=====================================
Maybe your CMOS battery needs to be replaced:

How To Replace The
CMOS Battery In Your PC
http://tinyurl.com/12a2
or...
http://www.liverepair.com/encyclopedia/articles/cmosreplace.asp

How To Install A CMOS Battery
http://tinyurl.com/z3l7g
or...
http://www.smartcomputing.com/Editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2004/w1510/32w10/32w10.asp

--

Volunteer J - MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

Flightless Bird
On Tue, 25 May 2010 22:57:57 -0400, "Volunteer J" <oobie@doobie.zyx>
wrote:

> shank wrote:
> > Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's available?
> >
> > I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5
> > minutes off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. It's
> > now about 15 minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again.
> > Historically, evidently, it's always 5 minutes off which makes me
> > believe it is syncing with something I'm not aware of. How do I
> > troubleshoot this?
> > thanks

> =====================================
> Maybe your CMOS battery needs to be replaced:



No, almost certainly not, for two reasons:

1. It goes off by only five minutes.

2. Before anyone whose clock is running slow rushes out to buy a new
battery, he should first take note of whether he is losing time while
the computer is running or while it's powered off. If it's while
powered off, the problem *is* very likely the battery. But if it's
while running (which is apparently his case), it can *not* be the
battery, because the battery isn't used while the computer is running.

If the clock loses time while running, try this:

Open a command prompt window (Start | Run | cmd) and enter the
following commands:

net stop w32time
w32tm /unregister [ignore error message]
w32tm /unregister
w32tm /register
net start w32time




--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup
 
S

shank

Flightless Bird
"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
news:sh4pv5d2gkqartphta7nmq52311beksat7@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 25 May 2010 22:57:57 -0400, "Volunteer J" <oobie@doobie.zyx>
> wrote:
>
>> shank wrote:
>> > Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's available?
>> >
>> > I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5
>> > minutes off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. It's
>> > now about 15 minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again.
>> > Historically, evidently, it's always 5 minutes off which makes me
>> > believe it is syncing with something I'm not aware of. How do I
>> > troubleshoot this?
>> > thanks

>> =====================================
>> Maybe your CMOS battery needs to be replaced:

>
>
> No, almost certainly not, for two reasons:
>
> 1. It goes off by only five minutes.
>
> 2. Before anyone whose clock is running slow rushes out to buy a new
> battery, he should first take note of whether he is losing time while
> the computer is running or while it's powered off. If it's while
> powered off, the problem *is* very likely the battery. But if it's
> while running (which is apparently his case), it can *not* be the
> battery, because the battery isn't used while the computer is running.
>
> If the clock loses time while running, try this:
>
> Open a command prompt window (Start | Run | cmd) and enter the
> following commands:
>
> net stop w32time
> w32tm /unregister [ignore error message]
> w32tm /unregister
> w32tm /register
> net start w32time
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup


I did the above because it appeared to be the most plausible and set it to
Worldtimezone. But some 10 hours later, it reverted back to 6 minutes slow.
What I thought was 5 minutes above is actually 6 minutes. And it will stay 6
minutes off no matter what I do. How can I tell if there's some small app
that's dinging the wrong time somewhere and changing my clock? Add/Remove
programs doesn't show anything I'm not aware of.

thanks!
 
U

Unknown

Flightless Bird
Try a different time server. Use: tick.usno.navy.mil
"shank" <shank@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
> news:sh4pv5d2gkqartphta7nmq52311beksat7@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 25 May 2010 22:57:57 -0400, "Volunteer J" <oobie@doobie.zyx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> shank wrote:
>>> > Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's available?
>>> >
>>> > I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5
>>> > minutes off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. It's
>>> > now about 15 minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again.
>>> > Historically, evidently, it's always 5 minutes off which makes me
>>> > believe it is syncing with something I'm not aware of. How do I
>>> > troubleshoot this?
>>> > thanks
>>> =====================================
>>> Maybe your CMOS battery needs to be replaced:

>>
>>
>> No, almost certainly not, for two reasons:
>>
>> 1. It goes off by only five minutes.
>>
>> 2. Before anyone whose clock is running slow rushes out to buy a new
>> battery, he should first take note of whether he is losing time while
>> the computer is running or while it's powered off. If it's while
>> powered off, the problem *is* very likely the battery. But if it's
>> while running (which is apparently his case), it can *not* be the
>> battery, because the battery isn't used while the computer is running.
>>
>> If the clock loses time while running, try this:
>>
>> Open a command prompt window (Start | Run | cmd) and enter the
>> following commands:
>>
>> net stop w32time
>> w32tm /unregister [ignore error message]
>> w32tm /unregister
>> w32tm /register
>> net start w32time
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
>> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

>
> I did the above because it appeared to be the most plausible and set it to
> Worldtimezone. But some 10 hours later, it reverted back to 6 minutes
> slow. What I thought was 5 minutes above is actually 6 minutes. And it
> will stay 6 minutes off no matter what I do. How can I tell if there's
> some small app that's dinging the wrong time somewhere and changing my
> clock? Add/Remove programs doesn't show anything I'm not aware of.
>
> thanks!
>
 
C

C.Joseph Drayton

Flightless Bird
On 5/25/2010 6:07 PM, shank wrote:
> Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's available?
>
> I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5 minutes
> off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. It's now about 15
> minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again. Historically, evidently, it's
> always 5 minutes off which makes me believe it is syncing with something I'm
> not aware of. How do I troubleshoot this?
>
> thanks
>
>


Is the machine in question on a network?? The reason I ask, is because
some network servers will force clients to sync their time to the server.

Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services

Web site: http://csdcs.site90.net/
E-mail: c.joseph@csdcs.site90.net
 
M

Mike S

Flightless Bird
On 6/5/2010 7:14 PM, C.Joseph Drayton wrote:
> On 5/25/2010 6:07 PM, shank wrote:
>> Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's available?
>>
>> I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5
>> minutes
>> off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. It's now
>> about 15
>> minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again. Historically,
>> evidently, it's
>> always 5 minutes off which makes me believe it is syncing with
>> something I'm
>> not aware of. How do I troubleshoot this?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>

>
> Is the machine in question on a network?? The reason I ask, is because
> some network servers will force clients to sync their time to the server.


That's a good thing to check:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307897
 
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