Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (963 mails)

[Rodney Baker <rodney.baker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:29:27 Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
>
> I have a dual-boot laptop I brought on trip from Eastern Standard Time
> to Pacific Standard Time.
>
> After getting to Pacific area I went into Yast and changed my timezone
> appropriately and double checked it was setup to use ntp.
>
> All was good, until yesterday I dual booted into Windows.  I didn't
> pay attention to the time it had, but now I'm back in openSUSE, my
> clock is off by 4 hours which puts me half way to Japan!
>
> What is the correct way to have my time set so that both linux and
> windows get it right and I can bounce between timezones as I travel.
>
> Thanks
> Greg

Use NTP and set it to point to a public timeserver (e.g. pool.ntp.org). 
Unfortunately Windows keeps it TZ variable in the registry so automatically 
updating Windows' TZ variable via a bash script while running Linux is non-
trivial.

You could always do what I do - boot your Windows partition in VirtualBox from 
Linux - that way the time is pretty much always in sync.
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