On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 07:25:56 -0500 Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:54:11AM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2008 7:15 PM, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That will fix the this issue. The problem you are facing is that > > > you have your hardware clock set to ticking localtime, instead of > > > GMT. Windows ticks localtime, which is a mistake carried over > > > from the 1970's and MS-DOS. Ticking localtime has all sorts of > > > problems, among which is if you reboot around the transition > > > between Summer Time (or Daylight Savings Time, depending on your > > > contry) and normal time, the OS has no idea whether the DST > > > adjustment has been applied or not. > > > > Actually you can force Windows to accept a hardware clock in UTC: > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl/TimeZoneInformation/RealTimeIsUniversal > > Oh, so cool!!! Do you know off hand what version of Windows started > honoring that registry setting? > > And what do you set that registry value to? Just a boolean "true"? > > Now, how to convince Ubuntu to put this in their FAQ so I stop having > their ahhh, less than clueful dual-booting Windows users who happen to > live in Europe stop submitting bugs on this issue.... According to http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html it's been there since Windows NT, but it is more or less broken in all newer versions. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
