Clock keeps pinging back an HOUR...???

I have an atomic clock pinging utility and every time I use it it will
ping the system clock back a whole hour. Now... we are in Daylight
Savings Time earlier than usual.

Any work arounds for this? I have tried several different time
servers and they all do the same thing. I have tried different things
with my system clock with the automatically checking for DST etc...
and I cannot get it to sync up with the atomic clock.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

~ david ~

 

Check the timezone configured in Date applet in Control Panel.

I don't use "atomic clock" (is the lower-cased name actually to mean
the Atomic Clock utility or some generic family of time-sync
products?). Maybe it has a setting regarding the timezone. Also, it
may have a setting to NOT sync the time if there is more than N
minutes of difference between the current time and the corrected time.
I use SocketWatch and it has an option (that is not enabled) to not
sync the time if the difference is more than 100 minutes (the default
but can be changed).

 

This is the part where you name the specific utility.

My specific NIST utility was obtained from the NIST site
http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm Software and Instructions -
Public Domain NIST Software - Windows 95 and later (32 or 64-bit) -
Version 3.31 - 20 September 2007

My utility requires that I have my timezone set correctly.

As I am using a native W98se system on this computer, which native W98
has not been upgraded with a 3rd party tool to autoset DST, then twice a
year I reset my timezone from PST which is -0800 UTC to Arizona time
which is -0700 UTC (corresponding to PDT) in the spring and then back to
PST in the fall.

That way my NIST gizmo can keep my computer's clock set accurately all
the time.

 

I'm in the central time zone but after the DST change last Sunday I needed
to change to the eastern time zone for my clock to correctly update. Not
sure why but it's a simple change to get my computer clock to update
correctly.

 

Sounds like you don't have the new Daylight Savings Time patch for
Windoze.

 

Correct.