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Time is messed up when I boot back to OSX from Windows.

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Slowstick

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Hello!!

Why is it when I restart my MacBook into OSX 10.5.6 from Windows my date and time are messed up? I am on internet time and it takes awhile for it to correct itself. It always manages to mess up my Time Machine backup.
 
Same problem here, and I don't think anyone has figured out a solution (please correct me if I'm wrong 🙂).
You could try stopping Windows from syncing its clock with a server, which I think will solve your issue in OS X (but then your clock would always be wrong when in Windows...)
 
TheVendor said:
Same problem here, and I don't think anyone has figured out a solution (please correct me if I'm wrong 🙂).
You could try stopping Windows from syncing its clock with a server, which I think will solve your issue in OS X (but then your clock would always be wrong when in Windows...)
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You can set both OS X and Windows to pull time from an online server, although I had this problem with Vista and I was able to fix it by ONLY setting OS X to sync with apple.com under System Preferences.

It takes a few seconds after a reboot into OS X to get the time right, but it DOES work.
 
Tomorrow said:
You can set both OS X and Windows to pull time from an online server, although I had this problem with Vista and I was able to fix it by ONLY setting OS X to sync with apple.com under System Preferences.

It takes a few seconds after a reboot into OS X to get the time right, but it DOES work.
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Your right! It does work! Thanks for the help!!!
 
Actually, there's a registry key in Windows that you can set:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl/TimeZoneInformation/RealTimeIsUniversal

I believe it's a DWORD, and you need to set the value to 1.

If the key is not there, you can create it.
 
Tomorrow said:
*bow* Glad to help, that's why we're here. 🙂
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Well.....after I did what Tomorrow did, it worked for about three days and then Windows tried to connect to the internet time server even after i disabled it.

So I did some research and a posting at paulstamatiou.com by richard said to do this (While in Windows):

Open notepad and copy these four lines into notepad:

@echo off
net time /setsntp:tick.usno.navy.mil
net stop w32time
net start w32time

Save it has a .bat file and then copy that file into your Startup folder.

Restart into Mac OS X and the time is fixed!!!!!!!
 
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