Ubuntu affecting Windows XP clock

[John]

Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Timothy Van Meir wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:13:44 -0500, Timothy Van Meir <tvanmeir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Whenever I log out of Ubuntu and boot up Windows, the clock
>>>is [..] consistently 5 hours ahead,
>>>
>>>I'm in the US Central time zone, if that makes any difference.
> 
> 
> US Central time is currently 5hours behind UTC/GMT.
> 
> 
>>I did a belated search, and it appears that at least one other person
>>has had this problem:
> 
> 
> Linux stores the true time in the Real-time clock and keeps track of your
> timezone as an offset.  Unfortunately, on PC systems, Windows stores
> localtime in the computer's Realtime Clock (RTC).
> 
> One solution to this is to leave the RTC in localtime and have Linux adjust
> the time when reading or writing it.
> 
> There isn't really a good solution, but something will probably be
> introduced as a work-around if there's also a copy of Windows on the system.
> 
> 	-Paul


As I've said before, it's how the clock is _always_ set when I acquire a 
computer, either new or old. I've not seen even new mobos with the wrong 
time in them, though I haven't looked closely at them all.


I see nothing wrong with the RTC being set to local time, and if someone 
installes Linux then Windows there is no way the installer can allow for 
the presense of Windows.