On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:08:51PM -0500, Ric Messier wrote: > On 2003.11.18 10:51, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > >It means that in my experience, if you don't have time set to UTC in > >Linux, every time you boot Windows it will mess your time up. > > > > I've never set my time to UTC under linux and Windows never messes my > time up. Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP have all been perfect > for dual booting. I don't think Windows makes such an assumption about > the hardware clock. Certainly hasn't been my experience and would be a > bit out of the ordinary for them. They may well assume that the > hardware clock is set to Pacific time, though. :-)
Actually, Windows assumes the hw clock to be set to local time, so if you set Linux to UTC, then Linux will mess your time. I had this happen some time ago, and instructing Linux that the hw clock is in local time solved the issue. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
