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I have XP installed & recently i installed FC10 .from then on both the OS display wrong date and time . how should i fix this?...
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    Incorrect Time & Date

    I have XP installed & recently i installed FC10 .from then on both the OS display wrong date and time . how should i fix this?
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    I suspect this is due to XP not setting the hwclock to UTC and Fedora referencing the clock as UTC.

    The easiest way to correct this is to edit '/etc/sysconfig/clock' value for UTC=true to UTC=false.

    If it is not there then you need to add it.
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    I think it's because you need to set your time to local, try this command
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    hwclock --set --date='03/31/09 21:08:40' --localtime
    Of course you need to change the above command to reflect the correct time in your area.
    After this, you'll need to set the time in XP also, but I don't think it's going to change anymore.
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    Why not just run NTP? No need to fiddle with the time settings then.

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    Will that solve the problem of Windows time being incorrect too or this a BIOS thing?
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    Try this
    Code:
    hwclock --systohc --localtime
date "ddmmhhmm"
    Good Luck!!!
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  7. 04-02-2009 #7
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    Windows has an NTP app also.

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