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Windows uses "Local Time" according to Linux's set up. Which means that it doesn't necessarily follow any standards. Whatever the BIOS says the time is, it follows. You can set it to whatever you want and Windows will follow it. However, Linux will not follow the BIOS time, and make sure that it's set to UTC, unless you told it to do so.xboxrulz...
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Windows Time Problem!

nightfox
I'm also experincing this issue on my desktop and my laptop. I'm wondering if there's some crappy update MS released that is really screwing up the system clocks?

Everytime I reboot my system, CMOS and Windows says it's 6:44 (or 6 whatever) PM when it is really 10:44 PM. I'll reset the time in CMOS as well and boot into Windows to find it is 6:44 AGAIN!

In SuSE, the time is correct! I'm having a similar issue on my laptop! WTF is going on?!? I've NEVER had anything crazy as this happen before!

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Levis
QUOTE(nightfox @ Nov 3 2006, 03:39 AM) *

I'm also experincing this issue on my desktop and my laptop. I'm wondering if there's some crappy update MS released that is really screwing up the system clocks?

Everytime I reboot my system, CMOS and Windows says it's 6:44 (or 6 whatever) PM when it is really 10:44 PM. I'll reset the time in CMOS as well and boot into Windows to find it is 6:44 AGAIN!

In SuSE, the time is correct! I'm having a similar issue on my laptop! WTF is going on?!? I've NEVER had anything crazy as this happen before!

[N]F

Umm I don't think that windows is messed up becasue their are two time servers that are setup on your system. Try the following - Go to Time and Date Properties then go to Internet Time, make sure that a check box tittled "Automaticall synch with an Internet Time Server" is checked and select "time.nist.gov" Its also correct, you might also want to run Update. If that does not help, it might be because you are using the wrong time zone. Hope this helps. Anyways i don't and have never had any problems. I'll come back to this post to try to help you out if that does not work.
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FirefoxRocks
Please verify:
1. Do you have the correct time zone?
2. Correct date on calendar?
3. If on Windows XP, synchronization with Internet Time Server "time-a.nist.gov"?
4. All security patches and updates applied? You can get Windows updates at http://update.microsoft.com

It would help to check those and also tell us the version of Windows you are using.

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tansqrx
I don’t know of any patches for this. If nothing else works you may want to change your CMOS battery. It’s a long shot but worth trying.

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yordan
QUOTE(tansqrx @ Nov 6 2006, 09:43 PM) *

I don’t know of any patches for this. If nothing else works you may want to change your CMOS battery. It’s a long shot but worth trying.

If it's a CMOS battery problem, it has to false the same way with Windows or with Linux. And it's correct with Linux. So I think it's not a hardware battery problem, it's something else.


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DrK3055A
QUOTE(yordan @ Nov 7 2006, 06:39 PM) *

If it's a CMOS battery problem, it has to false the same way with Windows or with Linux. And it's correct with Linux. So I think it's not a hardware battery problem, it's something else.


Besides that, if the problem were at CMOS battery, i think BIOS will halt for checksum failure (not pretty sure, but i recall that both CMOS and Real Time Clock reside into the same chip, so if there is a decay at the battery voltage, the RTC chip would reset all CMOS values.

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yordan
QUOTE(DrK3055A @ Nov 7 2006, 11:27 PM) *

Besides that, if the problem were at CMOS battery, i think BIOS will halt for checksum failure (not pretty sure, but i recall that both CMOS and Real Time Clock reside into the same chip, so if there is a decay at the battery voltage, the RTC chip would reset all CMOS values.

Not sure. I had often had battery problem on the computer clock, and the date and time simply disappeared at each system powerdown. And no BIOS halt due to checksum failure, because it's not a checksum error or a fatal error, it's only a local time possible error, but we could also really be January 1st 1970, so the hardware has to be able to boot today.

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xboxrulz
Make sure that SuSE's time is not UTC and set to be "local time".

Windows only operate under "local time" and not "UTC".

Linux/UNIX default is "UTC".

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yordan
Sorry, but what is UTC ? Unified Techical Collapsus ?

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FirefoxRocks
UTC = Universal Time Coordinates
GMT = Greenwich Mean Time

That is the basic time zone located in England which is used to determine the time in each time zone region throughout the world.

Is the problem fixed yet?

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xboxrulz
Windows uses "Local Time" according to Linux's set up. Which means that it doesn't necessarily follow any standards. Whatever the BIOS says the time is, it follows. You can set it to whatever you want and Windows will follow it. However, Linux will not follow the BIOS time, and make sure that it's set to UTC, unless you told it to do so.

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polarysekt
yeah xboxrulz nailed it... most linux distros use UTC and then adjust accordingly based on your current locale... most also tell you that they're doing so, as it would of course disrupt your other operating systems' times...

Windows, as far as I know, doesn't support this... (suxors)


I don't exactly know your setup, but on my KDE i can simply click on the panel for the clock and adjust the settings there... good luck...

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nightfox
I finally figured it out!! It's my Novell server's clock! I think the CMOS battery is going in it which is why my time was always off since I authenticate through Novell, it synced the time!

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nightfox
No. Windows also refuses to automatically check to see if it's online to update the time with a time server. And I've found the government time server to have a lighter load than MS's server.

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