<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Grizzly via ubuntu-users <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">10 December 2017 at 15:52, Colin Law wrote:<br>
Re: How to coordinate the clock whe (at least in part)<br>
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</span><span class="">>On 10 December 2017 at 15:45, Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On 10 December 2017 at 10:42, Colin Law <<a href="mailto:clanlaw@gmail.com">clanlaw@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > The clock is not normally an issue when dual booting.<br>
>><br>
>> It bally well is for me!<br>
>><br>
>> E.g. if it's set to local time, both OSes move the system clock<br>
>> forward or backwards when daylight savings times begins or ends,<br>
>> resulting in a 2h discrepancy.<br>
>><br>
>> My solution: minimize use of Windows. I boot it a couple of times a<br>
>> year, if that, normally.<br>
>><br>
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>Interesting, I have never seen that. I assumed the system clock was in UTC,<br>
>and so would not change with DST. You may be right about that though, I<br>
>have no evidence either way. However I would have thought it would re-sync<br>
>the next time ntpdate or whatever it is that does the auto timesync ran.<br>
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</span>Its on a tab in date/time that not many people visit, default is off<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>That's what I was hoping, but I cannot find anything about NTP in my Windows 10.</div><div><br></div><div>Moreover, my laptop's BIOS is reporting local time, and Xubuntu agrees with it, which is also a surprise. <br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Windows' time is 8 hours early, just as if it thought the BIOS time was UTC and Windows was correcting to local. This disagrees with what I was expecting. I'm not thoroughly baffled. And as the OP here, I sure wish folks would stop chattering about relativity, personal preferences, and the philosophy of time and just help me get my settings right. If you don't know how, leave space for those who do.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Kevin O'Gorman<br></div>#define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */<br><br><div><span style="line-height:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="line-height:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"></span></span><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="448"><tbody><tr><td width="25"><img src="cid:XVHDKDFDBURW.IMAGE_60.gif" width="25" height="21"></td>
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