hahaha. stupid pc clock

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hahaha. stupid pc clock

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it Always makes its self 4 min fast. I set it back to normal time and with in an hour its 4min fast. no more, no less. Pretty funny.

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I wonder..

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If there is some kind of PC clock virus going around or something? lol.. Seems LOTS of people are having problems w/Clock's on the PCs being fast.. weird..
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Ya the clock on my gf's pc is weird... it will hold the time for a week then all of a sudden be off like 3-4 hours... i put a new battery on the Iwill XP333 a while back and it changed nothing.
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could be that the time servers are off... or yo uhave wrong time zone set? that is if its even using a time server.
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Mine was haywire all of a sudden too. See this thread

Lvis posted this link for something called Atomic clock sync. Since I've been using that the time has been accurate. Try it, you'll like it. :)
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