Ubuntu affecting Windows XP clock

[Pix]

On 24 Sep 2004, at 05:25, John wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:13:10AM +0800, John wrote:
>>> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>>>
>>>> There's something much better than a tweak; there's a bug filed 
>>>> with a
>>>> strategy for a fix to make it to the right thing automatically.
>>>>
>>>> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332
>>>
>>> UTC is _never_ the right default for IA32.
>> I disagree.
>
> Under what circumstances do you think UTC right? So far, I've seen 
> people say "not so," but I don't recall anyone adding "because."
>
>
>>> It fails when Windows is installed second.
>> Have you tried to install Windows on a system with Linux on it?  The 
>> RTC is
>> the least of your worries.  Windows has never attempted to coexist 
>> with
>> another OS.
>
> Shrug.
> I know the problems OS/2 users have experienced. The last time I read 
> Windows installation instructions (NT), the manual describes how to 
> get your "other operating system" bootable.
>
> Whatever the problems, that is no excuse for exacerbating them.
>
>
>> The initial time set on the board at the factory is irrelevant, 
>> _especially_
>> if it's local time, because it's already wrong and needs to be set.
>
> They always seem to be Western Australian time and that's fine by me:-)
>
> For sure, if I go down to my local computer shop and buy a system, it 
> will be preconfigured to our time.

I've always found on dual boot windows/linux boxes I have to tell the 
linux one to read the bios time as  'localtime' not 'UTC' to avoid each 
OS messing with the clock every time I reboot.

This is down to windows writing the local time to the bios settings I 
believe.

~~
Pix x
'narf!'