I emailed Microsoft Support with a bug entry about the clock. They made it very hard to find anywhere to email them, but I did it.
A short while later I got back a nice email saying, essentially, “Sorry, and here is how to set the clock.” You can guess how happy I am about that.
But there was a mention in the email about XBox Live. It turns out when you connect to XBox Live it does set the time on your XBox. Furthermore, you can’t change the time while you’re connected to XBox Live. This is exactly what I’d like this would solve my problem. But it doesn’t work.
You see, I don’t use XBox live. The only time I connect is if I decide to buy some little game (which I haven’t done since buying Geometry Wars shortly after buying my system). I can’t play multiplayer (like in GTA4) since I don’t pay for Gold, and only have the free Silver membership.
This means that, despite the fact that my XBox is always connecting to Live to deal with friends, gamer scores, achievements, and other such things… it’s not connecting to XBox live since I must not be doing enough on Live to trigger the time update.
Weak. Really weak.
