System clock screwed up buy dual boot!

[oxf]

I'm dual booting Jaunty with Windows XP. (if I had my way I'd just remove XP but my partner still needit..another story) Anyway I find it impossible to get the system clock correct on both OS.

From what I read Linux defaults to using UTC (GMT) and adds one hour on for summer time. Thats fair enough but if we boot into windows it automatically resets the BIOS clock to current time which is summer or daylight savings time, i.e UTC+1. That mean next time I go into Ubuntu the clock is one hour fast. of course I've tried resetting it in BIOS setup but as soon as windows get its dirty hands on it it resets the BIOS and so on and on and on!

Most annoying

Mike

[KingX]

....From what I read Linux defaults to using UTC (GMT)

Don't know where you read it, but linux lets you choose between UTC or localtime. You could reinstall Ubuntu and set the clock to localtime.. I dunno if you can change that post install.

[thinkfree]

^Don't suggest reinstall as solutions of problems. Some way is there to do everything on linux without reinstall.
If you use GNOME, check SYSTEM>Administration>Date and Time . Here in TimeZone tab you can toggle UTC ON/OFF.

[oxf]

^Don't suggest reinstall as solutions of problems. Some way is there to do everything on linux without reinstall.
If you use GNOME, check SYSTEM>Administration>Date and Time . Here in TimeZone tab you can toggle UTC ON/OFF.

@KingX I've read a number of times that Linux is fundamentally different to windows in that it defaults to GMT(UTC) for its time setting and then add/subtracts x hours for the time zone. Maybe I've misunderstood it? Either way its causing a problem with my dual boot. As it is right now I deliberately set my WindowsXP time one hour slow (because it resets the BIOS) as I dont use windows as much. That way it sets to GMT and here in Linux I have the correct time. But there has to be abetter way of doing this?

As to System>Admin>date and time I see no way of doing anything beyond changing the time zone.

[thinkfree]

^It's there below list of cities in timezone in fedora. Don't know about ubuntu.

[thinkfree]

If you can't find it in Date And Time, then check this
Unofficial Ubuntu Starter Guide - How to disable system time/date from being reset to UTC (GMT)?

[oxf]

If you can't find it in Date And Time, then check this
Unofficial Ubuntu Starter Guide - How to disable system time/date from being reset to UTC (GMT)?

Ahh Thanks! That looks useful
Mike