Time issues

[looneeii]

Anyone else have an issue where if tehy dual boot or tri-boot Windows and Mac their clock is off by 4 hours??? If I go into Mac the clock is right, then I go into Vista and it's 4 hours ahead....and I have to re-sync the time....Not the end of the world but a bit annoying...

[kstephens98]

I experience this as well. Its anoying, but not enough that I have searched real hard for a solution.

[Luminaire]

Same here. Both XP and OSX tend to update the clock automatically. What I tend to do is adjusting the timezone, since that (I think) is OS dependant, while the clock itself is in the BIOS.

[looneeii]

For now I'm using Mac's syncronize time feature to fix Mac but Vista and XP only sync when you tell it to and you can't make it a scheduled task.

[consolation]

This had been answered soooooo.... many times now. But ok, one more time - then the next twit to post without searching gets it

 

os X , like all oses descended from unix, assumes your clock runs on universal time -UTC (or zulu, whatever you want to call it); it then adjusts it by your local zone time offset to display the current time. Windows is retarded and assumes that your clock runs on local time, and adjusts it BACK to utc whenever it needs to communicated with a network or internet device.

 

So when you dual boot, the two different oses will differ by whatever your local time varies from UTC (+ daylight savings if applicable). Personally I just don't care what windows thinks as I only use it for games so, who cares. If you want to fix it so you have the same time showing, the solution is bloody obvious.

[weirdlookinguy]

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...iversal_for_RTC