ruindpzzle Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 I find after switching between XP and OSX (on separate HD's) the system clock is off by hours and I have to reset it. Just thought I'd mention it, to see if anyone else has the same thing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1577-odd-time-switch/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
joelogic Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 I find after switching between XP and OSX (on separate HD's) the system clock is off by hours and I have to reset it. Just thought I'd mention it, to see if anyone else has the same thing. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yea I've noticed it too. If you set your time function (in both XP and OSX) to retrieve the time from the internet, it fixes this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1577-odd-time-switch/#findComment-9937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Or put in one of them GMT as Time Zone, so each other doesn't change the clock. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1577-odd-time-switch/#findComment-9991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joelogic Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Or put in one of them GMT as Time Zone, so each other doesn't change the clock. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> sneaky Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1577-odd-time-switch/#findComment-10002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruindpzzle Posted September 1, 2005 Author Share Posted September 1, 2005 Or put in one of them GMT as Time Zone, so each other doesn't change the clock. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It still throws it off, i set my time zone as reykjavik, iceland, GMT. so now my mac time is like 8 hours off. anyway, thanks for the reply anyway. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1577-odd-time-switch/#findComment-10538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoGGWT Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 I'm having the same problem. I know what's wrong (I think) but I don't know how to fix it. I triple boot Linux/XP/OSX, and the thing is XP likes to have the hardware clock set to your local timezone, and linux/OSX, at least by default, like to set their clock to GMT/UTC. There's a handy option in some of linux's configuration files which tell it that the hardware clock is set to local time, but I can't find one in OSX. OSX is based on darwin which is based on BSD, so there theoretically should be one somewhere, I just have no idea where the Apple guys stuck the file/option. If you want to fix it, leave XP on time update mode (NTP time update or whatever) and leave Linux in local time mode, but turn OFF time update on OSX and set to GMT/UTC. That *should* work. Because then the time stored in the hardware clock will be the local time, so OSX will just take that and think it's GMT and not change it. I'm running XP in a domain environment (if I had my way I'd screw over XP and leave linux and OSX with their default GMT modes). Ideally, some smart person will wander along and find the option and tell us... hint hint I'm still looking... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1577-odd-time-switch/#findComment-11925 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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