Constant XP Error #949341: Messin' With MY Clock?!

[bobber205]

Now, everytime I come from XP into my OS X install, my clock is WAY off by a random amount.

I'm kind of getting tired fixing it. This only happens after I use XP. The clock in XP is set correctly though unless I boot into OS X coming from XP then back into XP. Then it's messed up. A fix in XP doesn't help.

Heard of this? *sighs*

 

[mischief]

Now, everytime I come from XP into my OS X install, my clock is WAY off by a random amount.

I'm kind of getting tired fixing it. This only happens after I use XP. The clock in XP is set correctly though unless I boot into OS X coming from XP then back into XP. Then it's messed up. A fix in XP doesn't help.

Heard of this? *sighs*

it isn't a random amount. XP gets it's time in GMT, writes it to Firmware and then translates in software to local time. OS X, however writes local time to Firmware. As the two switch off (assuming automatic network time is shut off on both) the time will get out of sync by about 8 hours every time. Turn on network Time sync (automatic) in both OS's and make sure there's a connection handy when you restart. I'm sure this'll get fixed with the finnished release.

 

[balamw]

it isn't a random amount. XP gets it's time in GMT, writes it to Firmware and then translates in software to local time. OS X, however writes local time to Firmware.

Basically correct except you got it backwards, OS X is the GMT one (as any good unix) while Windows expects local time.

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