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My Mac OS X time keeps screwing up
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Yeah, when I used XP alongside with OSX the two systems seemed to live in two different time-zones.
Changing the time on XP would change to time on OSX and vise versa. The time would only differ one hour though.
yes, there are incompatablilities with the way time is kept on the two operating systems, stemming from dos time keeping, anyway, i think i saw a script or something out there if this is ya problem
Do you not have access to google ? ?
anyway here are a couple of solutions:
Heres the fix:
Make a batch file within Windows that contains the following 4 lines:
@echo off
net time /setsntp:tick.usno.navy.mil
net stop w32time
net start w32time
how to make a batch file if you dont know: open Notepad, paste the following lines then save as synctime.bat, or whatever.bat doesnt really matter as long as you have the .bat extension.
Then add the batch file to your startup folder in your Start menu so that it starts whenever windows starts up.
This works perfectly on my MacBook Pro.
I cant take credit for it, though.. I found it on a forum somewhere.
or:
Heres what I do.
In Windows I have a startup script that will adjust the time zone to your local time, and a shutdown script that will return the time zone to GMT.
RunDLL32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL %SystemRoot%\system32\TIMEDATE.cpl,,/Z Greenwich Standard Time
Er thats the shutdown script. To locate your timezone regedit and find HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones, looking for the key name of your time zone (may not be the time shown in the time zones control of windows). Im a Singaporean, hence
RunDLL32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL %SystemRoot%\system32\TIMEDATE.cpl,,/Z Singapore Standard Time
You know youve got it wrong when Windows prompts you to choose your time zone in a window.
anyway here are a couple of solutions:
Heres the fix:
Make a batch file within Windows that contains the following 4 lines:
@echo off
net time /setsntp:tick.usno.navy.mil
net stop w32time
net start w32time
how to make a batch file if you dont know: open Notepad, paste the following lines then save as synctime.bat, or whatever.bat doesnt really matter as long as you have the .bat extension.
Then add the batch file to your startup folder in your Start menu so that it starts whenever windows starts up.
This works perfectly on my MacBook Pro.
I cant take credit for it, though.. I found it on a forum somewhere.
or:
Heres what I do.
In Windows I have a startup script that will adjust the time zone to your local time, and a shutdown script that will return the time zone to GMT.
RunDLL32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL %SystemRoot%\system32\TIMEDATE.cpl,,/Z Greenwich Standard Time
Er thats the shutdown script. To locate your timezone regedit and find HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones, looking for the key name of your time zone (may not be the time shown in the time zones control of windows). Im a Singaporean, hence
RunDLL32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL %SystemRoot%\system32\TIMEDATE.cpl,,/Z Singapore Standard Time
You know youve got it wrong when Windows prompts you to choose your time zone in a window.
This is still a problem years later. Solution here includes actually includes deleting registry keys in WIn7 and zapping the Mac's PRAM. Apple and Microsoft, come on now, this isn't a time sync programming hurdle requiring quantum entanglement.
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