[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

[nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva)]

Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:29:20 Nuno J. Silva wrote:
>> Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I've noticed this problem on two different boxen, both of them dual boot
>> > with MSWindows.  A Gentoo only box of mine switched over to winter time
>> > correctly - so it must be my dual boot set up that is causing this
>> > problem.
>> 
>> It is a problem caused by the settings needed for Linux to live with
>> Windows on the same computer.
>
> Is there a fix?  I thought that the setting of CLOCK="local" in 
> /etc/conf.d/clock was to address the problem of having to dual boot with 
> MSWindows.

Maybe this is useful: Some webpages report a registry key which can be
set so that windows interprets the hardware clock as UTC:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
"RealTimeIsUniversal"=dword:00000001


This same page says also:

> It seems to work most of the "time" for me but 1 or twice a day the
> clock changes to the timezone offset again. I just have to do a w32tm
> /resync /nowait to fix it. My suspicion is that the clock applet in
> the tray is monkeying it up.

So I don't know if this Just Works™.

http://weblogs.asp.net/dfindley/archive/2006/06/20/Set-hardware-clock-to-UTC-on-Windows-_2800_or-how-to-make-the-clock-work-on-a-Mac-Book-Pro_2900_.aspx

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Nuno J. Silva
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