[Ham-Computers] XP Clock Issues

[John and Linda Miller]

Hi Duane,

For what it's worth, I have never had to reset the clock on either my XP-Home Edition or XP Professional Edition computers.  It is always fully automatic.  Not always perfectly accurate, but nonetheless, fully automatic  

My remembrance is that unlike other Windows machines prior to XP, Microsoft built into XP the code to standardize the computer clock to NIST, but does so only once each eight hours.  Then, according to the Microsoft Knowledge Base, the XP Automatic Updates included code that made XP compliant with the Energy Policy Act of August 2005.  That law specified that effective on the second Sunday in March 2007 daylight time starts, and effective on the first Sunday in November 2007 daylight time ends.

I recall writing a detail of this as it affected Windows 98SE because there were so many of them still in every day use.  Everything I wrote is still in the Ham-Computer archives, and this gave W98SE users a way to use their original installation disk to modify the beginning and the end of daylight time, in accordance with the new law, because patches from Microsoft for the W98SE had long since ended.

Loren may be right, your problem may be the time zone setting on your XP.  Or, I suppose, your XP computer may have missed the code change for the new law, but I don't know how probable this may be.

Break it down into the help you need from us and let us know.

John, W0IKT