alexs Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 Weird thing happens on my Toshiba laptop with a core duo. When I swith OSes (dual boot b/w XP and 10.4.7) my clock sometimes (most of the time, not always) jumps forward 6 hours. when the OS syncs with the time server, the time goes back to normal, but I can see it in the logs in OSX, and I can see it on the clock in XP (it takes XP a couple of minutes to sync up) Any ideas? Its bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 XP and OSX store time in different ways. XP stores local time. OSX stores UTC (Greenwich) time and applies an adder for time zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1233666666 Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 Is there anyway to change how XP acts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 There are 3 ways: 1) Get an app that sets the time off the internet 2) There is a batch script that can be run at startup to reset the time 3) There is a registry key that can be set, but this is an unsupported register and MS may change its behavior at any time, so this is not recommended. This link takes you to two other links which discuss 2) and 3) http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry123785 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1233666666 Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 Awsome, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexs Posted August 1, 2006 Author Share Posted August 1, 2006 thanks for the prompt answer! "Search newbie!" would also have been acceptable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakaas Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 just a theory, but you could alsy try setting the time zones to GMT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 That works for a while and then fails. I forget the reason, but I believe it is covered in the links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 Maybe because windoze is unable to syncronize the time if it's more than a few minutes off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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