Computer Clock go BOOM!

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Dr. kitteny berk
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Computer Clock go BOOM!

Post by Dr. kitteny berk »

Okay, so this is an odd one, even by my standards, my computer's clock keeps going to shit.

However, it seems to go to shit the same way every time, and be fixed by updating from any old NTP (so it's not a borked NTP issue)

Incidentally, it doesn't seem to show up in the time-service logs, only in kernel-general as event type 1

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- EventData 

  NewTime 2014-03-26T12:53:42.500000000Z 
  OldTime 2014-03-26T20:53:45.361975000Z 

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  NewTime 2014-03-25T12:53:44.500000000Z 
  OldTime 2014-03-25T20:53:47.619953600Z 
Ideas?

I'll swap the battery out, but the way it's losing time makes me think voodoo, not flat battery.
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Re: Computer Clock go BOOM!

Post by buzzmong »

How bizarre.

I've been having clock issues as well. Currently my pc is half an hour behind the times. Earlier on in the week it was an hour behind. I think mine is the battery though.

No idea why yours is losing exactly 8 hours though. That's very odd.
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Re: Computer Clock go BOOM!

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Is it travelling very fast?
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Re: Computer Clock go BOOM!

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BIOS clock playing silly buggers?
CIIJASAIIE?
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Dog Pants wrote:Is it travelling very fast?
:lol:
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Dog Pants wrote:Is it travelling very fast?
Now you mention it, I have noticed it accelerating to the speed of light during the evening.
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Re: Computer Clock go BOOM!

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You didn't let superman use your computer did you?
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Re: Computer Clock go BOOM!

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Have you tried resetting the windows time service in services.msc in case it's set to manual start up?
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Re: Computer Clock go BOOM!

Post by Dr. kitteny berk »

I hadn't, now I have. good thought

We'll have to see if it works. :)
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