On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 03:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wholly or partly mentioned :-
Jim C wrote:
I've just discovered that on one of my systems I have the common Windows/Linux time problem where the time is always off in one system or the other i.e. the Windows clock settings differ from the Linux clock settings. Has something to do with GMT or some such. Anyway I'm pretty sure I understand why this is but what is the fix?
Jim C.
IIANM, Windows will set you bios clock to the local time, so you need to run linux in local time to avoid mismatches. In Mandrake Control Center
> System > Date & Time, at least fiddle with the time to invoke a
configuration change, apply it, and you will be asked if your system/hardware clock is UTC. Say no to this and all should be kopesetik. I just went round and round with this and had to do this twice to get a boot with the right time. Don't know why.
Rolf
If you have a dual boot and do this at install, there is never a problem again.
Yes, good advice but there can be exceptions. The problem I was wrestling with came about after a boot into my cooker installation, after upgrading it in a chroot from my 9.1 install. Booting back to 9.1 left a time that was 5 hours ahead of my local time, which is 8 hours behind UTC, so there is no obvious, to me, logical cause. I have been running multiple boots for over 3 years and not seen exactly this behavior. I changed time with the kde clock applet, checked what the bios had (correct local), ran the mcc module, several reboots, and it has only come correct after running the mcc date & time module an additional time. I don't know what happened, even thought it might be something failing on the motherboard.
Just make certain that both check boxes are left empty. The time is always correct from then on.
HTH
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