On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 06:30, Hairysocks wrote: > > I have a dual-boot PC and notice that I can't get the time > > correct on both Win98 and Fedora. When the Win98 time is correct > > then the time on Fedora is one hour ahead. > > > > I'm sure its got something to do with British Summer Time / GMT, > > and that we are currently in BST, but I can't see how to get it > > correct. > > > > Can anyone help me? > > > > Rob > > > > > > IMHO, you can suffer with the difference, or do not use DST. > > Windows resets system time with the daylight savings time changes (twice > a year). Linux leaves system time alone and makes the change in > software to display DST. When you do dual boot in an environment where > DST is used you will see this discrepancy. > > I know of no way to make the two systems play nice together as relates > to time. Here's what I do: I mostly use Linux, so I don't really care if the Windows side is a bit whacked. I set the hardware clock to UTC. That way, Linux always knows how to do the right thing. I set the time zone in Windows to GMT, and I turn off the "update for daylight time" setting. That has to be done for *each* user in Windows. So the Windows side thinks its GMT/no daylight (which is the same as UTC) all the time and the Linux side is right all the time. When in Windows, I get local time by looking at my watch. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
