Joseph Loo wrote:
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 22:56 -0700, 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,
Vahe Avedissian
If I remember correctly windows requires the bios time be set at the local time. OpenSUSE will store the time in UTC which is several hours different from your local time depending where you are.
Linux can be configured to set the hardware clock to either local or UTC time, though all Linux/Unix time stamps are UTC and then converted to local time. I don't know if it still occurs, but years ago, when logging into a Windows domain in a different time zone would change your computer's time. Such a thing wouldn't happen in Linux, where everything works in UTC. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org