On Friday 08 August 2008 12:56:56 am Vahe Avedissian wrote:
I sent an email about this a couple of weeks ago but got no feedback from anyone. I also googled unsuccessfully...
Basically my opensuse 11.0 is set to sync date/time with UTC and that works fine. However, this is a dual boot machine (sorry VM windows is not fast enough for the graphic applications I need to occasionally use) and after booting windoz and back to opensuse, the clock is messed up! I do not understand why UTC sync-ing at boot is not resetting the time/date to the correct values.
Is this broken, or do I need to get a newer version?
Thanks,
Hi Vahe, If windows time is OK, than your windows are set to synchronize time with external source on the Internet. Windows consider that hardware clock is set on local time and there is no way to change that. When you boot to windows it will check Internet (NTP server), see that hardware clock is off and it will set hardware clock to correct time. Default for any *nix, including linux, is to consider that hardware clock is set to UTC. When you boot in linux it will read hardware clock and set correct operating system time according to time zone you are in. As there is no way that you can tell windows that hardware clock is set to UTC (they always know better what you want), you have to change setting in linux to Local Time and everything should be good. That option is there only to compensate for lack of such setting in windows. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org