Mick <[email protected]> writes: > On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:29:20 Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> Mick <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > I've noticed this problem on two different boxen, both of them dual boot >> > with MSWindows. A Gentoo only box of mine switched over to winter time >> > correctly - so it must be my dual boot set up that is causing this >> > problem. >> >> It is a problem caused by the settings needed for Linux to live with >> Windows on the same computer. > > Is there a fix? I thought that the setting of CLOCK="local" in > /etc/conf.d/clock was to address the problem of having to dual boot with > MSWindows.
Maybe this is useful: Some webpages report a registry key which can be set so that windows interprets the hardware clock as UTC: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation] "RealTimeIsUniversal"=dword:00000001 This same page says also: > It seems to work most of the "time" for me but 1 or twice a day the > clock changes to the timezone offset again. I just have to do a w32tm > /resync /nowait to fix it. My suspicion is that the clock applet in > the tray is monkeying it up. So I don't know if this Just Works™. http://weblogs.asp.net/dfindley/archive/2006/06/20/Set-hardware-clock-to-UTC-on-Windows-_2800_or-how-to-make-the-clock-work-on-a-Mac-Book-Pro_2900_.aspx -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
