Date/Time is almost always wrong...

[ZuParadox]

So i've had my PC since May, and everything is great....well almost everything.

On Windows 8.1 - i use the automatic update of the date/time and it is never correct (ie, i'm in the UK but it seems to be on US time - even though location is right)

So i turn the auto update off and set it manually....however turned the PC on yesterday and the date was the 27th July 2015 and the time was 12.30pm, even though it was 4th August @ 5.30pm


Any ideas?

 

[steaky360]

You could try changing the server your PC uses to find the time?

If you click the clock then change date/time settings under the internet time tab you can click 'change settings' and adjust the server from there - that might fix the problem.

 

[ZuParadox]

You could try changing the server your PC uses to find the time?

If you click the clock then change date/time settings under the internet time tab you can click 'change settings' and adjust the server from there - that might fix the problem.

Yep i've tried that too, still happens.


One thing i do, each night, is after shutting down the PC i turn the power off at the wall.....not sure if that will affect anything but its all i can think that i do to maybe affect it.

 

[steaky360]

Yep i've tried that too, still happens.


One thing i do, each night, is after shutting down the PC i turn the power off at the wall.....not sure if that will affect anything but its all i can think that i do to maybe affect it.

If it did affect it, the PC should still revert to the correct time when it checks with the server... Try not turning it off at the wall one night though and see if it fixes the problem...

 

[ZuParadox]

Yeah i've left it on, last night, so will see when i get home....


Reading on Google someone having the same issue was told "your motherboards CMOS battery likely needs to be replaced" - but surely that wouldn't be the case with my [new] machine?

 

[steaky360]

I just find it strange that it doesn't correct itself when the machine turns on, maybe the computer doesn't check the time every day.

I would guess you would see other issues too if the CMOS needed replacing. However its certainly something easy to do (and I'd guess PCS would/should send you a new battery if it was required).

 

[LFFPicard]

Just because the machine is new does not mean the motherboard isn't, it may have been sitting in stock for a bit so the battery is older. But even then it should last you a fair amount of time.
You would normally get a cmos error when you boot the machine unless that's been removed from post check these days.

Either way if it is the battery as steaky said it is very simple to change and is a standard 10p type battery, just turn machine off at wall, turn power on to drain the last of the power, remove the side case, run your hand across the top of the case to earth yourself. You should see the battery very easily, get a tweezer or small screwdriver just to pop the battery out the holder and put a new one in. Then put it all back together and turn on!

Doing so may reset your bios to default and windows may ask you to reset the time but that's all.