dadpad wrote:fishin wrote:dadpad wrote:on the task bar (at the bottom of the screen) in XP is the clock. if you right click on the clock a menu allows you to select an option to adjust date/time. selecting this menu item will bring up a window that tells you which time zone is selected and wether you have auto adjust for daylight saving time.
You may notice a tab for Internet time this tells you which sever your computer syncronises with. ie your computer looks at the time on the internet server and adjusts the date time acordingly.
Synchronizing your computer clockIf your computer is a member of a domain, your computer clock is probably synchronized automatically by a network time server. If your computer is not a member of a domain, you can synchronize your computer clock with an Internet time server.
None of this is going to help the average home Windows PC user.
I based my advice on my computer OS which is windows XP home. I clicked on the clock selected the apropriate menu items and advised on the options that are available to me, AT HOME. You couldn't find anyone more AVERAGE than me.
Yeah, I understand that but look at what the Help file is saying there.
Yes, every XP user has a box they can check to indicate that they do/don't want the system to automaticaly reset for daylight savings time - but that is where the problem comes in.
The problem isn't with wanting or not wanting to automatcially reset. the problem is that they changed the day to do the reset (It used to be changed at 2am on the 1st Sunday in April. They changed it to 2am on the 2nd Sunday in March!).
If you just have that box checked and don't get the updates your system won't adjust itself until April.
She needs the patch file that tells her system the correct day to change on.
The rest of the help file talks about using an Internet Time Server or a Domain Time Server if you are connected to a Windows Domain - neither of those applies to the average home user. The average user's clock is based on their PC's internal clock.
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