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Lumio
Apr 21, 2009, 04:17 PM
Hi,
I just found out, that when I boot into Windows, that my clock get changed. How can I prevent that? When I start Windows, wait a view seconds, it changes the clock to the right time on windows and on the same time it changes it on my mac maching (I see it on reboot)

Does anyone know, how to stop doing windows that?


Tallest Skil
Apr 21, 2009, 04:21 PM
You really can't.
Lumio
Apr 21, 2009, 04:27 PM
I can: Just disabled changing from summer to wintertime and also switched my timezone to GMT+0 Now the clock on windows is wrong, but that doesn't matter for me.
r.j.s
Apr 21, 2009, 04:29 PM
I can: Just disabled changing from summer to wintertime and also switched my timezone to GMT+0 Now the clock on windows is wrong, but that doesn't matter for me.

So, you wanted the Windows side to be wrong?
Mousse
Apr 21, 2009, 04:43 PM
If for some bizarre reason you're connected to the Internet while on the Windows side (why?:confused: J/K:p It's probably work related.:(), Windows will connect to the some server and "correct":rolleyes: your time. (I do the :rolleyes: because it always screws up my clock by an hour.)

Just turn off the synchronize with the Internet time server option in the clock setting.
SnowLeopard2008
Apr 21, 2009, 05:11 PM
It's the way Windows was designed. Like junk. Like father (Gates), like son (Windows) right? :D

All joke aside, you really can't do anything about it. It's a 'bug' that is extremely hard to correct.
kastenbrust
Apr 21, 2009, 07:10 PM
Windows has permissions to directly edit the bios system clock? :eek:
js81
Apr 21, 2009, 07:37 PM
This drives me crazy, too. Easiest solution I've found is to do as a previous poster said - set the Windows clock wrong. The only time I use Windows is to play games, so who cares if the clock's wrong (I don't play online games or anything - mostly Age of Empires II and III).
three
Apr 21, 2009, 10:54 PM
It has done this for me too, eventually OS X's clock will just autocorrect it's self.
cathyy
Apr 22, 2009, 04:56 AM
Change the time zone in OS X to GMT+0 turn off auto-sync. It'd look fine on the menu bar if you don't meddle with it.
scispi
Apr 22, 2009, 06:28 AM
Change the time zone in OS X to GMT+0 turn off auto-sync. It'd look fine on the menu bar if you don't meddle with it.

I recently purchased an iMac 20" (2.66 GHz). I have had the same problem of clock. There are suggestions on the net for editing the Windows registry. Presently I do not have the link. Please try that. It will change the Windows local time to UTC or something and then clocks would be OK. I will try this only after getting multiple NTFS on my HDD.