Re: Getting Linux and XP to cooperate on the BIOS clock settings
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:42:18PM +0000, 46kmz5j02@sneakemail.com wrote:
> I have a dual-boot system, running XP Pro and Debian linux. After
> switching from sarge to etch, I kept seeing a message on linux boot
> about "Superblock last write time is in the future. Fix? yes".
>
> The boot proceeds normally after that, but I don't like inexplicable
> error messages, so I did some searching on the net. Apparently, it
> had something to do with my bios clock being set to local time, rather
> than UTC. The recommended "fix" was to set the bios clock to UTC,
> which I did.
>
> However, when running XP, my system clock will periodically reset itself
> to the hardware clock, and the time jumps ahead four hours. This causes
> problems with some audio recording I do in XP, as the program I use is
> set to start at a certain time, and to split the audio file every hour.
>
> I found some articles about an XP registry key called "RealTimeIsUniversal",
> and I tried that, but it didn't help. I disabled the Windows Time Service,
> since I use a third-party application to synchronize my system clock to
> 0.us.pool.ntp.org a few times per day, but something is still resetting
> the system time to the bios clock every so often.
>
> Is there a way I can get these two operating systems to agree on how to
> set a clock?
I told Windows to go with UTC. Takes a while to get used to the
display (if I bother to look). I don't care much about what Windows
displays anyway (I'm rarely there...). I realize that this doesn't fit
others' needs, though.
Linux naturally is set to deal with the HWC set to UTC, which a while
ago was good considering some bug in libc, IIRC. (That's when I made
the jump form local to UTC.)
Kenward
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