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I don't know why, but for some reason that little bugger has been getting reset to be two or three hours behind, and it's starting to piss me off something awful. The only thing I can think of that was unusual enough to get it to slow down were the several times my PC borked up while I was doing some modding to Fallout 2, but the whole of that lasted barely fifteen minutes.

Anybody know of any fixes or alternative taskbar clock programs.

Replace your CMOS battery.

If it's exactly 2-3 hours behind: then check your time zone settings. If it's off by minutes as well, Arrow is right in checking your CMOS battery.

One way to test it is to set your clock correctly in CMOS. Then pull the power cord from the back of the PC. Let it sit for a while, plug it back in, then check the CMOS clock setting again.

If it's off then the battery is probably dead (it usually resets to some arbitrary date like 1/1/1900). But if the time is still correct, then you've probably got an issue with timezones.

TheFeniX wrote:If it's off then the battery is probably dead (it usually resets to some arbitrary date like 1/1/1900). But if the time is still correct, then you've probably got an issue with timezones.

It doesn't have to be dead-dead for the time to be off. The battery that came with my motherboard was in the process of dying, and it would lose a few hours every night (I turn the UPS off at night, so the clock was on battery). I pulled the battery out of my old motherboard and that fixed the problem.

Do a spyware sweep as well. Any type of clock syncronization software can screw up the settings too. (I've removed a few programs that installed themselves without my permission, and doing that seemed to fix the issue).

Is it off after your boot your computer, or does it randomly do it during the day, after it's been on for a while?