system time keeps changing

[Kurt111780]

Hello,

I have a user running windows xp pro on his laptop. About once a month at about 4pm the users clock will change to 11am. What could be causing this? I have scanned the system for viruses and spyware and found nothing.

What else should I look for?

Thanks,
Kurt

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[electronicsfreak]

my guess possible bad motherboard battery or laptop battery. wait for more answers as someone else might have another say about it.

 

[Kurt111780]

Hello,

We have windows server 2003. A logon script syncs the time with the server when the user logs on. So for sure the time is right in the morning.

This problem used to be more frequent. I found out that windows time service wasn't running on the server. I enabled that and added some external time servers. I thought that fixed the problem but still about once a month the users time changes.

I thought maybe a hardware problem but I think the time was correct in the bios.

Kurt

It's only easy when you know how.

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[schubb2003]

If you are using a domain the PDC(FSMO role holder) will be a time server and if the time zone is set wrong the time will adjust to the server time -/+ the offset. I had this issue with an image that had PST time zone set and we are in Massachusetts, so the clock would reset to 3 hours behind the DC.

Hope this helps,
Scott