Image Backup Dates are Off

[spokey]

My image backups show the wrong datetime. I saw a thread where someone else had the same problem. That wasn't answered but that thread is old so I was hoping there was an answer now.

Recently I had to restore due to a bad driver update. The most recent image backups where close to each other as I sandwiched another change between them (i.e. image, system change, image).

I have been renaming the WindowsImageBackup as suggested with a date time stamp of the backup. For example - WindowsImageBackup 2013-12-27 160024. When I went to restore the system I got confused. I found that the date / time of the doesn't match the folder date times. In fact, one backup did not even have the right date.

What I found was that the wrong timezone is being used. I am US east coast (UCT -5) and the backup is using the US west coast timezone (UCT - 8) so my backups are exactly 3 hours off.

My computer has the correct time and indicates the correct timezone (US east / UCT -5).

I guess I will normally be able to pick the right backup, but I'd really like to know the correct date and time to avoid any mistakes. Is there anyway to fix this?

 

[Brink]

Hello Spokey,

Normally, the date and time of the WindowsImageBackup folder name will be what it was when it was created.

What was your time zone or time/date on your PC when the system image was created?

 

[spokey]

attached is the time setting on the computer showing the correct time and time zone (EST).

also attached is an example of what I mean. I have backup starting at 7PM and it includes an image. So this image was made towards 8PM EST. This is a picture I snapped of the backup directory and restore dialog having booted via a System Repair Disk. I did check the date and time from that command prompt in case something funky happened when I created the disk that caused the machine to look like a different time zone when I booted a system repair.

So the directory name and the backup match. 000020 hours - 8 hours = 1600 or 4PM. But it really started running at 7PM local time which is the difference between my eastern time zone (-5) and west coast (-8).

An interesting side note is that these times do not match the time I see after I've booted normally and go to System Restore / Restore Points. The attached jpg shows the backup starting at 7PM and the image backup starting at 7:00:20PM.

Obviously if I'm careful I can handle this but it seems like it would be a lot better if I could fix something to make everything match up.