Whenever I boot into windows, it's always about three hours off. I always have to manually update the time. Doing this results in a time change on the OSX side of things as well. Thankfully OSX auto updates but it's still frustrating, any ideas that can help?
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Windows isn't keeping time...
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It's a well-known problem.
IIRC, it's because of the different ways in which XP and OS X get the time from the BIOS/EFI. On my MBP, XP is always an hour behind the real time.
IIRC, it's because of the different ways in which XP and OS X get the time from the BIOS/EFI. On my MBP, XP is always an hour behind the real time.
It's because of disagreement over what the time in the hardware clock represents. I think Apple uses UTC in the hardware clock and Microsoft sets the clock to local time. It's not a bug, just a misunderstanding. The clocks are working as they are designed; they're just designed differently.
Your clocks should be off in Windows by the number of hours you are different from GMT. I have this same problem on my Linux-Windows dual boot computers which I can't fix due to software running in Linux which requires UTC in the system clock.
Your clocks should be off in Windows by the number of hours you are different from GMT. I have this same problem on my Linux-Windows dual boot computers which I can't fix due to software running in Linux which requires UTC in the system clock.