2009/4/6 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > suvayu ali wrote: >> >> Thanks Matthew for this clear explanation. I am going to set the >> hardware clock to UTC and set Windows to use UTC without DST >> corrections to avoid further confusion. This seems like the most >> sure-shot way to tackle the problem. >> >> Thanks to all who replied. :) >> > There is a registry tweak for for XP so that you can have the > hardware clock set to UTC, and still have the time correctly > displayed for the time zone you have set. It is supposed to bother > some programs, but I have not run into any yet. (Then again, I don't > run XP that often.) > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation] > "RealTimeIsUniversal"=dword:00000001 > > Mikkel Thanks Mikkel :) Added that to the registry. My only reason for using XP is some graphics intensive gaming, so doesn't matter much whether certain apps likes that or not. So after all this, my hardware clock is set to UTC. And both windows and Fedora show the correct time for my time zone (with DST). Now only the next DST change will tell whether everything is just right. Thank you all for the help. ^_^ -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
