Windows Date and Time – up to their usual standards.

Fix your Date and Time? That's crazy talk.

So yesterday I replaced the CMOS battery on my PC motherboard. Trying to fix a boot problem. This, of course, reset my system clock to Jan 1, 2002.

Now I am used to running a Mac where you correct your system clock by running the Date & Time control panel and connect to a time server. Hey look! Windows has a Date & Time control panel. Excellent. Launch windows Date & Time. Hey, its got an Internet Time tab! This should be easy.

Famous last words...

Date & Time is pointed to server called time.windows.com. So I get an error message when I click on Update Now. Try again. Still an error message. Fine I'll read it. For security reasons, Windows can not synchronize with the server because your date does not match. Please fix the date and try again

Wait... what??? I have to fix my date manually before I can fix my date automatically? Oh my god!

It is Windows!