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Clock gets changed MikeM 12-19-2005
|--> Re: Clock gets changed Michel Bordelea...12-20-2005
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Posted by MikeM on December 19, 2005, 11:10 am
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 I use the utility from the US Naval Observatory (nistime_32.exe) to update
the clocks on my computers every day. It works perfectly except for the
clock on my MCE machine. In this case, I find that the clock gets reset
about 2 minutes fast every few days. It seems to happen all at once, not
gradually. This leads me to suspect that there is another agent that is
resetting my clock to the incorrect time.

This causes recorded shows to start and end a couple of minutes early.

Mike

Posted by Michel Bordeleau [MVP-MediaCen on December 20, 2005, 9:15 am
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 Hi.

Windows might be updating itself against time.windows.com or time.nist.gov.
To disable this, right-click on the clock and select Adjust date/time. In
the resulting window, select the Internet Time tab and uncheck the box
marked "Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server".

--

Michel Bordeleau
MS-MVP Media Center

>I use the utility from the US Naval Observatory (nistime_32.exe) to update
> the clocks on my computers every day. It works perfectly except for the
> clock on my MCE machine. In this case, I find that the clock gets reset
> about 2 minutes fast every few days. It seems to happen all at once, not
> gradually. This leads me to suspect that there is another agent that is
> resetting my clock to the incorrect time.
>
> This causes recorded shows to start and end a couple of minutes early.
>
> Mike



Posted by Rolf Molini on December 20, 2005, 9:29 am
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Hi Mike,

I can confirm this behaviour.

In my case the MCE-machine - if synchronizing with an aribtrary timeserver -
will add 6 minutes to the actual time.

Among my general settings for recordings I have chosen "start 4 minutes earlier
if possible".

However, I think if MCE accomplishes it by setting the system time to an earlier
time this is completely idiotic since the same 6
minutes will then lack at the end of the recording. I will not notice this since
all my recordings are individually set to an
additional 15 or 30 min of recording.

Months before I searched the whole registry for a key which defines this strange
behaviour but I couldn't find one.

Regards
Rolf

>I use the utility from the US Naval Observatory (nistime_32.exe) to update
> the clocks on my computers every day. It works perfectly except for the
> clock on my MCE machine. In this case, I find that the clock gets reset
> about 2 minutes fast every few days. It seems to happen all at once, not
> gradually. This leads me to suspect that there is another agent that is
> resetting my clock to the incorrect time.
>
> This causes recorded shows to start and end a couple of minutes early.
>
> Mike



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