Windows Update fails if your system time is off

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rich

10 January 2004

My main problem right now is that Windows Update isn’t working.
It’s the well know “Windows Update Problem”:http://www.updatexp.com/0x800A138F.html call 0x800a138f. Great name!
In my case, studying c:\windows\windows update.log revealed I was really getting an 0x800C0008 error (man have PCs become like mainframes or what!). Amazingly, this is because I got the clock screwed up by a year (2003 not 2004), so it rejected a bunch of things. When I have time I’ll research that :-). Interesting to see the auto time sync in Windows refuses to update the time if it is dramatically off. I had thought that time was never going to be a problem again. Sigh.

3 responses to “Windows Update fails if your system time is off”

Roger

10 February 2004

Well, same problem, except my clock time is [currently] Feb 11, 2004, 6:54pm [NZST]
time zone is GMT +12. Only thing I can think is it should actually be GMT + 13 at the moment.

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Dave

9 February 2004

I had the same problem..here are some sites that helped me fix the issue:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsupdate&tid=bbdeed78-8add-41a8-89fd-e6f55a6ff75f
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/2004-q1/0039.html
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBH/tip3900/rh3998.htm
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/0x800c0008

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Dave

9 February 2004

This has also happened to me 🙁 I found no way to fix it..yet

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