Comments on: PC didn't change for Daylight Savings Time. Now what?

Question: PC didn't change for Daylight Savings Time. Now what?

copystar — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:20:36 -0800

Uh-oh. My computer (MS XP) didn't make the leap and change itself for daylight savings time. I thought I was ready - I installed all the recommended updates. (Someone left the computer on overnight - that couldn't have caused our trouble, could it?) Is there any I should do other than manually change the clock in the systems tray?

By: Baud

Baud — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:01:47 -0800

First thing that comes to mind is to shutdown the computer and reboot it (if you have not tried that yet of course).

You can keep your computer clock aligned on an atomic clock by using Dimension 4. It's free !

By: MattD

MattD — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:37:54 -0800

Right click your time. Click the Time Zone tab. Check the box "automatically adjust for daylight savings time." I had to do it this morning.

By: gregvr

gregvr — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:59:06 -0800

I did too.

Strangely enough, I was set to GMT-5 (Bogata)!.

Once I set to GMS-5 (Eastern), the "allow for daylight changes" appeared, unchecked.

Checked it, and everything worked.

By: copystar

copystar — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:08:03 -0800

Much thanks!

By: booticon

booticon — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:19:18 -0800

Keeping your computer on overnight is most likely not the culprit--I leave my computer on about 24/7 (including last night), and when I got home from my graveshift job, my computer reflected the adjusted time.

By: Good Brain

Good Brain — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:18:42 -0800

Wow, Weird. Numerically, the clock on my Windows XP system, which I brought out of overnight hibernation about 15 minutes ago, reflects pacific standard time, but when I open up the clock/calendar it says I'm in the "Pacific Daylight Time" zone.

By: damn dirty ape

damn dirty ape — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:13:31 -0800

A time sync program wont do this. Time is set using UTC and the local machine applies time zone/daylight changes. Check your time zone settings as mentioned above.

Also I believe SP2 machines by default synch to microsoft's time server anyway.

By: krisjohn

krisjohn — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:35:06 -0800

When the Western Australia dialy savings patch was released it had the following various problems on various:

It didn't install properly and needed to be uninstalled and reinstalled
It installed but did not turn itself on
It installed and turned itself on at first but turned itself off after some random time.

So, I suggest: uninstall, reinstall and confirm it's turned on. Manually changing the time is not an option. As it is we're getting appointments from other organisation that are landing in the calendar one hour out.