wrong date / time

My Netgear WGR614v7 has a problem with the time and date.

Current Time: Saturday, 04 Jan 2003 06:50:40

I cannot change the time and date to the correct one and Netgear
support is incredibly stupid or purposely avoiding helping me.

The time used to be correct but somehow it fell off.

I have reflashed it with the current firmware and reset the power but
all it does is go back to 01 Jan 2003. Where does it get its time from
anyway?

Any ideas please?

 

According to the user manual the router uses multiple nntp servers to update
the time.

I have seen some people have had success by defaulting the router to factory
defaults. I would save your configuration to your PC first. Your model can
be reset from the "Main Menu|Maintenance|Settings Backup" menu. Then give
it 5 to 10 minutes to locate a server on the web and see if the clock
updates. If it does you might be able to reload your configuration file and
have it stay updated. If not manually configure the router back to what you
had. Possibly the built in firewall has been set to block nntp access.

I don't have one of these routers but some of them, when you tell it to save
the configuration file to your PC it saves it in a plain text file. If your
model does you can read through it and look for the nntp servers it is
polling to see if any of them still exist. If not, edit the file and reload
it back into the router.

I was going to suggest trying the dd-wrt software and see if the router ran
better with that but a quick look shows revision 7 of your router is not
supported.