Yes, the time zone is set correctly, I am in North Carolina and the time zone
is set to Eastern time. It is a Dell computer, so I called Dell tech
support. They told me to hold Ctrl and tap F11 to bring up Dell PC Restore,
which is a program in a separate partition that restores your computer to an
image created at the factory. Is it possible that the PC Restore turned back
the clock in the BIOS? I am also getting certificate errors in IE 6 saying
"the certificate has expired or is not yet valid". I have to click "OK" 3 or
4 times for it to go away. Thanks.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> Is your time *zone* correct?
>
> cf.
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities...1bc30aa463&p=1
>
> cf.
> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...d545e79b7df874
>
> cf.
> http://update.microsoft.com/windowsu...=en&IsMu=False
>
> cf. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326253
>
> cf. http://www.updatexp.com/0x80072f8f.html
> --
> Windows Update-specific newsgroup:
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....windowsupdate
>
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
>
>
> lrh381b2 wrote:
> > Thanks for all the suggestions, I tied everysingle one of them, but
> > Windows
> > update still gives me the same error message: "Your computer's date and
> > time
> > appear to be out of sync with an update
> > certificate. To fix this:
> > 1. In Control Panel, open Date and Time Properties.
> > 2. Ensure that the date and time are correct.
> >
> > Read more about steps you can take to resolve this problem (error number
> > 0x80072F8F) yourself."
> >
> >
> > "Detlev Dreyer" wrote:
> >
> >> "lrh381b2" <lrh381b2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think the virus corrupted a critical file in the windows directory,
> >>> so Windows would not boot. After talking to the help desk for the
> >>> computer manufacturer, My only choice was to erase the hard drive and
> >>> make it like a new computer.
> >>
> >> This was certainly the best solution in terms of system security.
> >>
> >>> Everything works now except for Windows Update.
> >>
> >> In addition to PA Bear's reply there are some tools around fixing that
> >> problem, eg. http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix or
> >> http://download.mshelper.de/mshregs/winUpdRstre.exe
> >>
> >> --
> >> d-d
>
>