How to Adjust the Date & Time on Your Computer

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Michael Burton with michaelburtonfilms.org, located in Salt Lake City Utah, and we're here talking about using Microsoft Windows. What I want to talk to you now about is how to adjust the date and time on your computer system. Let me start out by saying that Windows XP is a registered trademark of Microsoft and I am in no way affiliated with Microsoft. To adjust the date and time on your computer system is very simple. It's important to, especially because I've had times when, when I've had the wrong time on my computer system because I chose the wrong time zone or something, and I'm always going off that clock and I end up being late to an appointment or something. The best way to change the time is to scroll down the the right hand corner. If you look down on the right hand corner of your desktop, it gives you the time, and if you Mouse over that, like I've done, it'll show you the current, it'll show you the current date. If you click on this, if you double click on this, it will open up your Date and Time properties. Let's go ahead and bring this down to the center of the screen. This is showing exactly what time it is where I'm located in Utah, the date, and this is how you change it. For example, here's a drop down menu for the Months, you can change to what, what your current month is, if this happens to be off, this just happens to be the month of August. Here's your drop down list for the Years, you can change the year and here, you would just click on the date on the Calender of what date it is, to get that current. There's three tabs up here, "Date and Time", "Time Zone" and "Internet Time". Go ahead and click on the Time Zone tab, this gives you the chance to choose your Time Zone, right now we're in the Mountain Time zone, and I've already clicked the button down here, "Automatically adjust clock for Daylight Saving Changes", that way you don't have to keep up with that. I think that's why my clock was always an hour off. Because I never checked that. The third tab up here is your Internet Time, this is going to synchronize your clock with certain websites. Like here's a website, time.windows.com, if you click the "Update Now" button it will automatically update your date and time for you, so that you don't have to do it manually. That's just a quick short cut to do it, but usually I know the date and time anyway. So that's pretty much the simplest way to do that, that's important because it, with all of, with your computer, your, your automatic, your savings, and your, you know, your automatic savings and your files are all saved by date and time, and if this is not accurate, then it's going to hard to to do System Restores, or to restore certain deleted files, if your date and times are off."