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From: Dominic Payer on 26 Mar 2010 02:27
The only way is to find and disable the feature in or uninstall the
application which is resetting the time.


On 26/03/2010 01:50, TMA wrote:
> I guess so, yes. I don't remember exactly, but I think I did something.
> How can I fix it?
>
> "Dominic Payer" <dcp(a)dcp.fsv.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:#EslAr$xKHA.4240(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Windows 7 stores time in UTC and applies an offset according to your
>> regional setting. Since your region time is UTC-3 the time is being
>> reset to UTC.
>>
>> Have you installed an application which checks and resets the time -
>> incorrectly - to UTC because it is not Windows 7 compatible?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 20/03/2010 02:55, TMA wrote:
>>> Yes, I tried changing servers. I even tried to uncheck internet updates.
>>>
>>> I think there's somewhere else setting the time zone to another place
>>> other than here because the difference is exactly 3 hours. As I said it
>>> seems to be putting me somewhere in the west coast of the US.
>>>
>>> I hope this is not due to my version of win7 is english, because I just
>>> hate translated versions (at least portuguese is really bad translated).
>>>
>>> Additionally, I think I changed the default time storage system a few
>>> weeks ago. Changed it to UFC system for compatibility reasons with linux
>>> karmic koala.
>>>
>>> Thx Carlos for the reply.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Carlos" <Carlos(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:596D336C-0185-43C3-AE51-E42C77BF734B(a)microsoft.com...
>>>> TMA,
>>>> Have you tried changing the time server?
>>>> I had issues lately (Buenos Aires time) with time.windows.com
>>>> My PC's were always lagging 3 minutes.
>>>> Carlos
>>>>
>>>> "TMA" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am located in Brazil and set my date/time defaults to Brasilia
>>>>> capital of
>>>>> brazil (UTC-03:00).
>>>>>
>>>>> When I go and synchronize my clock from the internet, any of the
>>>>> servers
>>>>> will give me the correct local time, but after a few minutes windows
>>>>> 7 will
>>>>> change the time to 3 hours before. Yes, always 3 hours exactly.
>>>>> Since my
>>>>> local time is about 1 hour in front of New York, 3 hours should be
>>>>> somewhere
>>>>> in US pacific time.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to leave the wrong time for 2 days, but the clock change
>>>>> wasn't
>>>>> recursive. In other words, once the clock is rolled back, it will
>>>>> remain 3
>>>>> hours wrong until I manually update from the internet. This also
>>>>> happens if
>>>>> I uncheck "Synchronize with internet time servers".
>>>>>
>>>>> I've checked all the settings that I know and everything is
>>>>> pointing to
>>>>> brazil, but this issue keeps coming back.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also no messages displayed when the clock changes even though
>>>>> "notify me
>>>>> when the clock changes" is checked.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe an application is changing it in the background? How can I
>>>>> track what
>>>>> exactly is changing the clock?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>
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