ASUS laptop, home premium 64-bit - and time zone wrong - huh?

Helping my daughter today with a "new" (refurbed actually) ASUS laptop T4500, with a Home Premium 64-bit OS on it.

Everything more or less worked okay out of the box as far as I can tell.

But in the initial setup (the stuff that launches the first time you turn the computer on), when I (correctly) picked my time zone - eastern US - the clock set one hour behind. Daylight time was correctly detected; without it I'd have been two hours behind.

I spent a little time trying to figure that out, couldn't get it to take, and finally copped out and picked Atlantic time, one time zone to the east of where I really am.

So now the time displays correctly, but I'm pretty bugged that, after setting up maybe a dozen computers from Windows 98 to Windows 7, I am faced with a stupid glitch like this that I've never seen before.

Other than the date/time control panel, which I've of course tried and failed with, is there some odd hidden setting that would explain why I have to have the computer set to the Atlantic daylight time zone to correctly display the eastern daylight time?

richc46 said:

Sounds like daylight saving time is not factored in
Set the clock

It was.

Win7 is to automatically detect DST, and it does so correctly. If I manually override the setting and uncheck DST, the computer time goes back one hour, making me two hours behind.

After I posted I had the epiphany to check the region settings, which I did, and the region was correctly set to United States.

So I'm still at a loss as to what is wrong.

richc46 said:

Is your date correct?

Date also is set correctly.

p5bdkw said:

After setting the date and time zone correctly, go to Internet Time and do an Update using the windows server.

That solved it. I would like to think that, with a cool head and time on my hands, I'd have eventually tried it. But I didn't until you made the suggestion. Thanks.