Clock on windows 8 is wrong time, i tried setting to internet time but its still wrong, think theres a time clock bug, anyone have same problem for windows 8 and know how to fix it?

San,

I don't think blaming cheap PC hardware is correct at all.  I split my time 70/30 between Ubuntu Linux and Microsoft Windows 7.  After initial set up, Linux never, never, never has the time incorrect.

Microsoft Windows 7 almost always has the time incorrect.  I have to remember to manually command it to resynchronize to time.nist.gov. the same problem appears to exist in Windows 8.

I believe the root cause of the problem is that Windows sets the hardware clock to local time.  It should set the hardware clock to universal time.  Microsoft please don't be so stubborn and fix this problem.

  Pedro

The clock built into PC motherboards have always been cheap and variable.  Some are very good, some are very poor, even in the same batch of chips.  As PCs get older (not in your case Des!) the CMOS battery can die, causing all sorts of boot problems, including losing the system time.  Hardware manufacturers could include very accurate clocks in PCs, but these can be in the region of 10s if not 100s of Dollars/Pounds/Euro instead of the few cents/pence/cents the ones used cost.  They don't use the good ones as PCs have software to auto-correct the time.

In the early days there was no means of correcting the problem other than manually.  There have always been internet timeservers used by the top level servers to keep them in sync.  People started writing utilities such as the Net Time Sync tool to correct their PCs.  MS eventually built the facility into windows but it has two problems.

1. The list of timeservers is small, and with most people not knowing the facility exists the default server gets most of the work.  If the server doesn't reply to your PC you don't get the time updated.  Try doing the update whilst you have the internet update applet open and see how often it fails the connection.
2. If the discrepancy between your PC and the timeserver is too great the time will not be updated.

You can search for free/open timeservers and change to a different one, but they all fail to connect at some time.

DO NOT RESET YOUR CMOS unless you know exactly what you are doing.  Doing so can stop your PC from booting.  The CMOS data tells the PC what speed to run things at, what hardware is there, what memory there is and its type, as well as the system time.

Thanks sanwin2, This is the first time I have seen anything useful on this matter. So how do we get Microsoft & the H/W guys to get together & to fix this? It seems to be a recurring theme affecting lots of users. 

I read somewhere that resetting the CMOS might help. I've installed the latest BIOS update but that didn't seem to fix it. Too many moving parts in the modern PC environment I think.

Regards