Time problem

[kaptainkal1]

I have a dual boot on my computer, with Fedora and Windows XP. Whenever I go into linux, and then go back to windows, my clock for some reason in windows is ahead by 5 hours. When I change it, and go into linux, the time is correct, hwoever, i go into windows, and it goes ahead once again. What's making it go ahead like that? I dont see a wrong time in linux, only when i boot into linux, and then go into windows.

[trouble.ted]

I have a simiar problem, heres my post:

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=119838

[SuperNu]

If you setup your Linux install to use UTC for the time standard, then this would cause your time under Windows to change. Unfortunately, Windows doesn't understand UTC, so it uses whatever time the BIOS gives it. Under Red Hat 9 using KDE 3.1.4, if I right click on the clock, select Adjust Date & Time, click on the Time Zone tab, there is a tick box to use UTC. Untick this box and your system should revert back to using LOCAL time for the time.

--SN

[hardcore]

my guess is that you live in EST (GMT -5) and your linux clock is set to GMT 0, so just set the correct timezone, and your windows and Fedora clocks should be in sync. There might be an easy gui way, but this be the way i know:

type this command as root:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST /etc/localtime

that should do it for you, unless your machine is different than mine, in which case search for the location of EST and localtime, and change the paths in the command above.