The computer clock is quite important for keeping accurate time as any other clock.
If the desktop of your work is in your computer, you probably keep an eye on the date and time whenever you want to know the current time.
It can be frustrating to make a mistake or to follow a wrong time and can even create costly problems in your work. An out-of-time clock may affect the tools you use on your computer.
A computer with an incorrectly set clock prevents its system from performing the tasks you have programmed it to do, and when your computer time is wrong, it will be difficult for you to find information about files you have created, because your computer organizes these files chronologically according to the dates you created them and tries to identify them by the current date and time.
It’s like having a memory lapse to remember where something was dropped off. This will make your computer synchronize with a wrong time server.
Do you ever start your computer and find it set to a time in the past or future even though you have already set it? If YES! And to avoid all these issues, here’s how to set your computer time and time zone.
► On Windows 10
To adjust the time and time zone in Windows 10, there are five ways to access the date and time settings.
➧ 1/ Click on the link below to directly access your date and time settings
https://support.microsoft.com
➧ 2/ Click on
↪ Start
↪ Settings
↪ Time & language
↪ Date & time
➧ 3/ Click on
↪ Notification on the taskbar
↪ All settings
↪ Time & Language
↪ Date & time
➧ 4/ Or right click on
↪ The notification on the taskbar
↪ Open action center
↪ All settings
↪ Time & Language
↪ Date & time
➧ 5/ Right click on
↪ The clock or the date and time on the taskbar
↪ Adjust date/time
After selecting one of the five ways to access the date and time settings in Windows 10, under Date and Time, you have the option to set your time and time zone automatically, or you can set them manually.
⮫ To set your time and time zone automatically in Windows 10
↪Turn on “Adjust for daylight saving time automatically. “
↪Turn on “Set time automatically”
↪Turn on “Set time zone automatically”
It’s all over.
⮫ To set your time and time zone manually
↪Turn off “Set time automatically”
↪ Click on “Change” button
↪ Fill in the settings you want to use
↪ Click on “change” button
↪Turn off Set time zone automatically
select the time zone you prefer, and you may turn off “Adjust for daylight saving time automatically”
► On Windows 7,8, and Vista
To adjust the time and time zone in Windows 7, 8, and Vista, there are three ways to access date and time settings.
➧ 1/ Click on
↪ Start
↪ Control panel
↪ Clock, Language, and Region
↪ Date and Time
➧ 2/ Click on
↪ The clock or the date and time on the taskbar
↪ Change date and time settings
➧ 3/ Right click on
↪ The clock or the date and time on the taskbar
↪ Adjust date/time
After selecting one of the three ways to access the date and time settings in Windows 7, 8, and Vista, a small window opens, on which you click again on:
↪ Change date and time
↪ You can change the time and date in the small window that appears with a calendar, using the arrows from right to left to change the date, or up and down to change the time.
↪ Click OK
↪ Click on “Change time zone”
↪ Turn on “Automatically adjust clock for Daylight Saving Time”
↪ Click OK
↪ Click “Apply” when finished to confirm your change
That’s it! If this post was useful to you, please make sure to leave a good comment.
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