time conflict

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon May 3 20:09:36 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 21:11 +0200, Joerg Bergmann wrote: 
> Am 03.05.2010 21:04, schrieb Andres Felipe Acosta Gil:
> > Hey all. I have a problem with time configuratin, i have 2 OSs in my 
> > laptop; Windows 7 and Fedora 12, when i boot fedora, the clock is 
> > always unconfigured and when i configure it and later boot Windows, 
> > the windows clock is unconfigured,
> >
> > Any suggestion??
> A common mistake is mixing up both the BIOS clock modes, e.g Linux uses
> GMT as the BIOS clock setting and Windows local time (or the reverse).
> 
> Joerg

Every time you shutdown Linux the Linux system time is dumped as the new
BIOS time. So the BIOS time can be set by setting the system time. I am
not sure how Windows handles this but I would bet local time is used.
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