Windows XP Clock Losing Time

Discussion in 'Trading Software' started by flipflopper, Sep 11, 2009.

  1. I noticed about a week ago that my windows clock is losing time.

    I leave my PC running and it loses time so it is not the CMOS battery. I have tried syncing the time to both time.windows.com and time.nist.gov but after syncing it quickly begins losing time.

    I can easily tell that time is being lost because of the lag between my minute bars on my chart and the clock. I am sure that my clock is off and my charting is correct and not lagging in case anyone was thinking that.

    Any suggestions would be great.
     


  2. http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock/
     
  3. Does your BIOS lose time as well?
     
  4. rwk

    rwk

    Is there any chance that you made configuration changes? Long, long ago (in the PC-XT era), I noticed that my clock lost time when I wasn't running in turbo mode.

    My first thought was the CMOS battery. As you said, it's probably not that, but I would change it anyway because it's not that expensive. If that doesn't work, my may need a new motherboard.
     
  5. I'm not sure about the BIOS losing time.
     
  6. If you care enough to check, I will care enough to help. ;)
     
  7. Thanks for all the suggestions.

    Chronos seems to have fixed the issue but shouldn't I be worried that Windows can't keep time. I keep my trading machine in pristine condition. Don't know how this happened.
     
  8. I'm trading now and I beleive the only way I can check the BIOS time is by reset. What is I told you the BIOS time was right? :D
     
    #10     Sep 11, 2009