On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:33:01 +0100 Mark Rogers mark@more-solutions.co.uk wrote:
On 29 April 2015 at 12:25, Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
I googled "RTC in local TZ" and one link suggested I change timedatectl to 'timedatectl set-local-rtc 1'
I think my preference would be to fix this at the Windows end, not the Linux end.
This looks useful: http://superuser.com/questions/185773/does-windows-7-support-utc-as-bios-tim... .. but I haven't tried it
Having RTC in UTC makes far more sense. Even if both systems understand that it is in local time, you still have the issue that both O/S will likely try to correct the time at BST boundaries, so the clock will go back one hour for each O/S on the system in autumn, and forward one per O/S in spring.
(This is a classic example of Windows assuming it is the only O/S on the system, and it doesn't even play well with multiple Windows versions on the same box.)
I have now made the change to Windows and set the clock there to the correct time. I then rebooted the box and adjusted the CMOS clock to the correct time but as soon as I boot into Mageia, it sets the CMOS clock back an hour, viz :-
Local time: Fri 2015-05-01 11:33:47 BST Universal time: Fri 2015-05-01 10:33:47 UTC RTC time: Fri 2015-05-01 10:33:47 Time zone: Europe/London (BST, +0100) NTP enabled: yes NTP synchronized: yes RTC in local TZ: no DST active: yes
The desktop clock shows the time as 10:36 when it is in fact 11:36. I can put up with that if things like the times on emails are correct. So I'll check to see what time is displayed on this one when it hits the ALUG list.
I've had a look on the Mageia forum to see if anybody else is having this problem and it appears not. But I might well ask a question there as something else is also not right with the machine. If I right-click on the clock panel, the background disappears as does the taskbar and I get a very small window appear on one desktop. Perhaps it's time to try Mac OS ;-)