Guide to Change Date & Time On Windows 10 Manually

Time, though it is a man-made criterion, is significant for human beings. Computers are a part and parcel of our day-to-day lives. From schools to hospitals to supermarkets, we use computers everywhere. We do everything on the computer now due to the global pandemic, from college seminars to job interviews. We are all locked down in our houses, and computers are the only source of communication. 

If the date & time displayed on your windows is wrong, there are chances you might run a little late in the submission of your work. Incorrect time on your computer screen can sometimes make time management difficult for working people and students. Therefore it is necessary to set the date and time right on your PC to avoid being late for your work. In this article are going to show the detailed process to change time & Date on your windows 10 PC / Laptop

Date & Time On Windows- How To Change It Manually

Causes and Steps to Rectify 

There can be many reasons why the time and date in your personal computer could be incorrect. The reasons why time keeps changing in your PC may be from faults in your settings to the batteries dying. Listed below are a few reasons why time keeps shifting or is wrong in your PC.

Dead battery

The main reason why this could happen on your PC is because of the CMOS battery.  You can find this battery in the motherboard of the CPU of your computer. It gives power to the Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor chip. This chip stores all the system configuration settings that include day and time. It saves all the information about the date and time even when the computer is turned off and does not have any power supply.

However, if this batter goes down or if it gets damaged, there are chances, the chip could lose its ability to store information. Your system no longer maintaining the date and time right is one of the symptoms of this battery damage. You can often find your computer setting a faulty date or dates like the 1st of January and around midnight. Fortunately, you can rectify this by changing the CMOS battery. A CMOS battery is easy to replace.

Steps to change the CMOS battery include,

1. Turn off your computer
2. Protect yourself from static electricity
3. Open the case
4. Check the type of CMOS battery on the motherboard
5. Install a new battery
6. Turn on the PC again.

Time zone settings

If your computer’s clock is off for an hour or two, there might be changes in the windows’ time settings.  Windows will just set it to the wrong time zone. Windows will fix this time by default even if you change the time and date manually. But to rectify the incorrectness is quite simple.

Listed below are the quick steps one should follow to reset the time zone in Windows 10.

1. Right-click the system clock that is present on your system tray.
2. You can see that in the bottom right corner of the screen.
3. Click on ‘Adjust date and time’.
4. You can enter the correct date and time manually.

 

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How to Change Date & Time manually: 

1. Go to settings
2. Click on time and language
3. Click ‘Date and Time’
4. Now change the date and time manually.

 

 

Check if the date and time are correct in the time zone. If they are incorrect, correct the time zone from the drop-down menu. If the drop-down menu is grey, then you need to doable the ‘Automatically set time and date’ slider in the time zone.

Enable ‘Adjust for daylight saving time automatically ‘and ‘set time automatically’ for your convenience. This makes it easy for you, and you do not have to think about changing it manually every time.

Out of sync

One of the main reasons why there can be faulty date and time settings in your computer could be your Windows time being out of sync.  You might be dealing with very poor synchronization settings if your time and date settings are incorrect, even though your CMOS battery is working well and the computer click is right on time. To know if this is the reason, you must first confirm if your computer clock is syncing itself with a valid time server. To ensure this, you can follow the following steps.

1. Go to settings
2. Click in time and language.
3. Click region.
4. Choose ‘additional date, times, and regional settings.’
5. This step will take you to the old control panel interface.
6. Click ‘set date and time’.
7. You will see it under date and time.
8. Switch to the internet time tab
9. Click change settings

Change server if needed

Choose an option from the drop-down menu. This will help to synchronize the clock. It will also prevent it from drifting down to incorrect settings gradually. Now you have to make sure if Windows synchronizes its time regularly. To check that, do the following.

1. Press the Windows key
2. It opens the Start menu search
3. Type ‘Services’
4. Open utility
5. Located Windows time in the Name column
6. Right-click it
7. Select properties.
8. Select windows time properties
9. Set startup automatic.
10. Click ‘Start’ to ensure if the service is running.
11. Click ‘Ok’ to save your changes.

Conclusion

By reading the whole of this article, one can understand the reasons behind why the date and time on their Windows PC are faulty or changes frequently. The user can use the steps included in the article to rectify the mistakes himself. These are the primary and significant reasons why there can be a wrong time in your Windows PC. Apart from these, if you still experience changes or the wrong date and time, chances are, your computer has been hacked by malware. To remove this is not easy, but it is not impossible as well. You will need to install few malware removal tools. It is also essential to check if the antivirus software in your system is up to date. By doing this, you can rectify the time and date errors in your windows PC.