Re: [gentoo-user] About the time sync with Windows and Gentoo

[J. Roeleveld]

On Tuesday, July 08, 2014 03:27:45 AM Michael Cook wrote:
> On 07/08/2014 03:04 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 08, 2014 02:45:41 PM taozhijiang wrote:
> >> Hi, all
> >> I have installed dual OSes on my laptop: Microsoft Windows 7 and Gentoo.
> >> But I can not sync the time with the different OSes.
> >> By default, Windows & shows the right time, but Gentoo failed, how to
> >> setup
> >> the system to fix the problem described above.
> >>
> >> I am in the Zone UTC+8, China/Beijing.
> >
> > Please check the hwclock configuration:
> > **********
> > # cat /etc/conf.d/hwclock
> > # Set CLOCK to "UTC" if your Hardware Clock is set to UTC (also known as
> > # Greenwich Mean Time).  If that clock is set to the local time, then
> > # set CLOCK to "local".  Note that if you dual boot with Windows, then
> > # you should set it to "local".
> > clock="UTC"
> > **********
> >
> > In other words:
> > Set the BIOS clock to the local time.
> > Set the following in the /etc/conf.d/hwclock file:
> > clock="local"
> >
> > Also, ensure that MS Windows does the clock-changes between summer and
> > winter time (if that exists where you live).
> >
> > --
> > Joost
>
> It's actually recommended for dual booting with Windows Vista+ to set
> Windows to UTC rather than setting Linux to local (Windows XP and
> earlier apparently don't play nicely/can't be set to UTC)
>
> This should tell you how:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/time#UTC_in_Windows

Thank you for this.
I don't often boot into MS Windows and deal with the change in clock when I 
get back into Linux afterwards.
This should solve that :)

--
Joost