How do I change the time on my computer?

Question

The computer time usually turns with a time change on its own, but this year it didn't. I don't know how to do it. Please explain in specifics. Thank you

thank you Christi D that helped me alot!! :)

Answer 1

You need to right click on the time (probably bottom right of your screen) and click Adjust Date & Time, enter the correct time. :) Hope this helps!

Answer 2

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I guess I don't quite understand what you mean when you say, "...had this one one year and find this one can use some updating already..." Typically, when you run into a situation when a computer needs to be updated, it's a rather specific situation, ie., a game you want to play that requires more RAM, or you require a faster graphics card, or something like that. They way you have worded it, I'm wondering if you are just unhappy with the performance of the current system. I for one, am a firm believer in what is called an operating system's half life. I download often, install, and uninstall software, and am constantly moving files beween drives, and ultimately this turns the registry into something akin to spaghetti. With my current systems, I have a boot drive, and then I have seperate storage drives, therefore, I can format my system about every 6 months with little problem. That cures things like freezing, loosing performance, too much time booting, and other cooties that generally occur over time. This is what your complaint really sounds like. However... The people that drive the computer business are the OC'ers and the hard core gamers. It is requiring the speed and capacity (mhz and ram) that is what these guys look for --generally speaking. I know that entails improvements in bus speed (SATA vs. PATA) and things like recent changes in PCI cards. that also evolve over time, and just not chip speed and RAM capacity. Now for myself I am not a gamer, but I do a lot of Video Editing. I've been into computing since 1993, and I am on my 3rd system. I build my own now, so that if I do choose to make a change, I can just make the change and not purchase a complete system. I'm sure you have heard similar stories, but my 2nd system was right around $3,000.00 in 1995 and in 1997 that same system would have cost less than $1,000.00. Now that is nuts! What made my system obsolete, and this goes back to being specific, had to do with my video editing. I decided to use a different software application. It was written for the Windows XP platform, and my PII 333mgz with Windows 98 was simply too slow for the drivers. but I used that computer for 7 years with little or no problems. I upgraded to '98, max'd the RAM, and added storage drives. That's all I did, and that system did me fine for 7 years. Performance problems can indicate a tune-up, as it were. If that's the case, just keep making backups, or have seperate storage, and format regularly. Not weekly, but once or twice a year should be sufficient. Now you also mentioned updating. That's something quite different. Maybe the chip on your mother board isn't the fastest chip the board can handle, or maybe your board can operate with more RAM than you currently have installed. This is a little more difficult to know when you should make these changes. One thing that I am a huge proponent of is maxing the RAM. Regardless of what you do with the system, how old it is, or whatever else, if you are serious about your computer, find out what the maximum capacity is, and find out what the fastest speed your bus will utilize, and get it in there! Just doing that will cure many ills. But with any of this (Except the RAM) use caution. You don't have to have the latest graphics card, the most current audio card and every other peripheral that comes on the market. Many times, you put in a new card, and you won't notice any difference. And as far as changing entire system, if you need to do that after a year, you did something grossly wrong when you purchased it in the first place!

Answer 3

Change Time On Computer

Answer 4

It may not have changed for 2 reasons I can think of. 1. Daylight savings was early this year and your computer wasnt programmed for it. 2. you dont have your clock set to daylight savings adjustments.

Windows: go to your clock in the task bar (bottom right) and double click it. It should bring up a clock and a calendar. you can set your clock from there.

Mac: Click settings in your Dock and then click on Time and Date. Adjust from there.

*Make sure you keep an eye on your time in like three weeks incase it changes because of the usual daylight savings time, just in case.

Answer 5

From the desktop (the screen that first appears when you start your computer) click on my computer. Then click on Time/ Date, from there you will see a box where you can enter time, set the time, and click okay.

You should see the new time instantly!

Answer 6

Just double click on the time displayed in the lower right hand corner of your computer screen. Then you can put click on the time in the white display box (such as 11:51) and use the backspace key to put in the correct time.

Answer 7

Right click on the time and an options bar will pop up, click on adjust time and change it to whatever time you want to!

Answer 8

Right click on the time, left click on adjust calender and time, high light hours or minutes then increase or decrease, then click apply and OK.

Answer 9

Since you failed to mention which operating system, I'll assume XP? You need to download and install the DST (daylight savings time) patch from Microsoft. See link below.

Answer 10

it should of changed itself...if not then call the company who makes your pc and ask them.