Hour stem on clock does not change sometimes.

Question

The hour on my laptop clock is very sporadic in increasing to the next hour.
When it should be 2:00pm it remains at 1:00pm. Minutes change accordingly.
It only seems to be 1 hour behind. If I use the laptop in the morning after 7 hrs of off-status, it will be 
1 hour behind normal time.
Just a thought, is it trying to initiate daylight savings time ahead of schedule? Am I missing an update?
Any test I can perform for this situation?
Laptop is Dell latitude E5530 using Win8. Brand new had for 2 weeks.

Any ideas?

TC.

DELL-Nikhil D1 · Accepted Answer

Hi tomx2,

If you don’t synchronize your system clock with a time server, your clock will most likely miss the real time for one or two hours, even if you set your time zone and everything correctly.

You can correct this easily by right-clicking the clock at the bottom right corner and selecting “Adjust date/time”. In the appearing window, go to the “Internet Time” tab and click “Change settings”.

Tick “Synchronize with an Internet time server” and select “time.windows.com” from the drop-down menu; click “Update now”. The time should now be displayed correctly.

Note: make sure the system is connected to internet while changing the settings.

Please try the above steps and reply for any further help.

ejn63 · Answer

Is the time zone correctly set?

tomx2 · Answer

Thanks too Nikhil & Ejn63! My time zone was also incorrect should have been eastern instead of central.

DELL-Nikhil D1 · Answer

Hi tomx2, I am glad to hear your issue is resolved, please feel free to reply if you need any further assistance.

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