Time is wrong

[Neron]

Hi,

I installed YoWindow on a Pentium 4 PC with Windows 7 - 32 Bit. I live in Bolivia (Santa Cruz) and I put this location as the "Home Location" but the time is displayed wrong - exactly 2 hours are added to the real time. I checked the following things like described in the FAQ and the time in the PC BIOS is correct. Please check the attached JPG image:

Screenshot of the time settings and YoWindow

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1. Windows time is 10:05
2. Time Zone is correct --> UTC-07:00 (For La Paz and Santa Cruz)
3. Daylight saving is enabled.
4. The Windows time in the tray is also 10:05
5. The time in YoWindow is 12:05 (two hours more)

If I change the location to an other place (like Zurich, Switzerland) the 2-hour time problem is the same. So I think that has nothing to do with a specific location.

I use the YoWindow version 2.0 b459 (free edition) - Downloaded today.

Does anyone has an idea how to correct this problem ?

If you need anymore information about the PC or else I will provide it.

Thanks a lot for your help !

[FvE]

Hi Neron,

There was something similar some time ago on a windows vista pc.
It was solved by rebooting the pc.

Have you tried that?

Fred

[Mallorca]

Hi Neron,
do you have daylight saving time in Bolivia? If not, you have to disable this feature.
As Fred wrote, after changing time it is necessary to reboot your system.
Werner

[Neron]

Hi and thanks a lot for your comment!

I got the problem now. I synchronized the Windows time with a timeserver (over the time settings panel) and saw that the synchronized time was 2 hours different. So I went to check the time zone for La Paz (Bolivia) via Google and found it on http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/. There I found that the timezone for La Paz (Bolivia) is really UTC-04:00 hours and not UTC-07:00 like on my PC. Then I went to the timezone settings and there are two "La Paz" in the timezone list like you can see on the following image:

Two timezones with "La Paz"...

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I had to learn from Wikipedia that there are various "La Paz" but one is in Bolivia and another in Mexico

So the problem is solved, I only had to select the right one from the timezone list.

I'm sorry about that and thanks a lot to all people who helped me!


PS:

@FvE: Yes I rebooted a lot of times but that did not help because I had selected the wrong "La Paz" timezone. But thanks anyway for your help!

@Mallorca: Yes you are right, Bolivia does not have daylight saving time. Thanks anyway for your help!

[FvE]

Hi Neron,

Good to see you've solved it.
Thanks a lot for your excellent report!
This can always be useful to others.

Regards,
Fred