On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, David Scriven wrote:
I'm running FC6 & Win XP on a dual boot machine - Intel Core 2 Duo,
Intel 965 chipset
There a weird situation with the clock which shows up when I go from FC6
to Win XP and back. If the clock is correct in FC6 and you go to XP the
clock is eight hours fast. If it is then corrected and you go back to
FC6, it is eight hours slow. The zones are set correctly for both
systems - Pacific Time zone = GMT-8, so my guess is that FC6 is not
correctly interpreting the timezone info when reading the system clock.
Anybody else come across this? - Is there something that I should set
(or check whether it's been set)?
What's in /etc/sysconfig/clock?
If UTC=true, then Linux will store UTC (GMT) in the hardware clock on
shutdown. Windows only understands local time in the hardware clock.
The Time Zone tab of system-config-date has a checkbox to set UTC or local
time.
Note that having the hardware clock set to local time on a dual-boot
machine can be annoying around the daylight savings changes.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
