Time Problems

[Death 2 Windows]

Does anyone know how to fix the time issues when dual booting JaS 10.4.8 and XP?

 

I'm in US Eastern time right now and when I boot mac it is 4 hours behind xp.

 

Any ideas?

 

It looks like mac is using UTC from the BIOS but windows is not.

 

Thanks

[Death 2 Windows]

O.k. I should have looked down the forums list a little apparently. Here's what I found as a fix for this from this post:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=57216

 

Use this little trick to change the clock between local & universal every boot. A couple lines need to be added to the initialization sequence, you'll need root privleges to do this. These files probably don't already exist on your system, so take that under advisement.

 

First you'll need to add a line to /etc/rc.local:

 

date `date -u +%m%d%H%M%Y`

Note the use of backticks to tell sh to pass the output from the enclosed command to the outer one.

 

 

And to /etc/rc.shutdown.local you'll need to add this:

 

date -u `date +%m%d%H%M%Y`

This changes it back again.

 

Be sure your clock is set correctly before your next reboot. Otherwise your clock will be messed up till you correct the time (either on macos or windows). This should keep your windows and macosx clocks in sync from now on.

 

 

This was taken from post 2 in this forum. This worked for me on 10.4.8

 

Later

[Lkr]

I believe that fix only works in 10.4.8