Is the clock on every computer system in your organization set to the correct time? If your answer is no, you’re not alone. According to a 2007 study by Florian Buchholz and Brett Tjaden, both ...

Surrounded by computer screens in a modern office, you may check your monitor instead of a wristwatch to verify the current time. However, an incorrectly set system clock can cause more problems than ...

Windows 11 and Windows 10, by default, syncs your system time with Internet servers, every week. We have already seen how you can change the Internet Time Update interval to make Windows synchronize ...

If your computer's clock is 10 minutes slow, you can manually change the time by opening the system clock and adjusting the time forward by 10 minutes. You can also have your computer automatically ...

For some reason the last week my computer clock has been fast. We sync our clocks during login but I don't hardly ever log out. Just to test it I synced my clock when I left on Friday and this morning ...

Reader Dan loves his Asus netbook–but not its clock. Every time he turns the machine off, it seems to lose a couple hours. But the minutes, he notes, remain accurate. There are a number of reasons a ...

While computers manage many things with extreme precision, they have surprising difficulty keeping track of time. It’s pretty much impossible for a computer to keep exact time, although accuracy can ...

Hackers used a weakness in the Internet system that sets the time on computers' clocks in order to overload a victim's servers with traffic, in what is reportedly the largest-ever such cyberattack.

If your company's computer clocks aren't in sync, forensics, backups, and much more can suffer. Simson Garfinkel on getting the time right. Is the clock on every computer system in your organization ...