Re: Windows and UTC system time

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 07/05/2014 04:01 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> On Saturday 05 July 2014 21.38:46 Nelson Green wrote:
> > Good afternoon,
> >
> > This morning I had the mis-fortune of creating a dual-boot system with
> > Debian on
> > a machine that already had windows installed on. I installed a second hard
> > drive, installed Debian, and almost everything works. But I apparently told
> > the
> > installer that the system clock is set to UTC, when it is not (because
> > windows
> > has no real concept of time).
> That's not true. For some reason M$ makes it very complicated, but I have a
> dual boot system and I have Windows 7 running with system clock set at UTC.
>
> Look on the web and you should find how. I find it's a lot better than to run
> Linux in local time, as far as I am concerned.
>
> Thierry
Unfortunately, the fix that works in Windows 7 does not work in Windows 8.
Microsoft "fixed" it!

--doug