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Clock behavior Ubuntu +WXP SP2

Asked by tomrad

I have a Lell Latitude D620; it came with WXP SP2. BIOS A080
It also runs Ubuntu 8.04 from an USB HD, as the Dell allows me to boot from either Internal or USD HD
In Ubuntu I have my clock synched with stdtime.gov.hk automatically. the Ubuntu time zone is Asia/Taipei, GMT +0800
In WXP, same stuff, only it synchs with time.microsoft.whatever it is called.

The OSes do not seem to synch the clock the same way. Every time I move between them, the time on the curently booted OSis is out whack.
Usually the time of the booted OS is US West Coast time (happens in both Ubuntu in Windows)

Anybody has seen this already?

Cheers!
RT

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Best Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#1

I noticed a timezone update recently, have you installed all the latest?

Open Applications menu, Accessories and Terminal window

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

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tomrad (tomradu) said : 		#2

Tony
Thanks for the suggestion. My system is update (just did a manual update just in case.
Looks to me that the two OSes (WXP and Ubutu) synch with the Dell BIOS clock in different ways.
We can not rule out a BIOS issue.
The mystery is of course why does the System Clock revert to US West Coast time whenever I am swapping OSes

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Harvey Muller (hlmuller) said : 		#3

tomrad,

It looks like you are bumping into the UTC and local time issue. Windows uses local time, and Ubuntu defaults to UTC. You will have to either make windows use UTC or make Ubuntu use local time.

There's a good write up here, along with both solutions:

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime

Please report back here and mark the question Solved if this resolves your question.

Thanks!

Harvey

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tomrad (tomradu) said : 		#4

Thanks Tony Mugan, that solved my question.

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tomrad (tomradu) said : 		#5

Brilliant; I am patented idiot.
Harvey thanks for freeing my brain of additional and unwarranted BIOS ramblings

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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#6

Oops!
How did I earn the star for this one?

Sorry Harvey, I owe you one. :)

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tomrad (tomradu) said : 		#7

Sorry, my bad I had meant it for Harvey

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Tony Mugan <
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> Your question #38449 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/38449
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> Tony Mugan posted a new comment:
> Oops!
> How did I earn the star for this one?
>
> Sorry Harvey, I owe you one. :)
>
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Harvey Muller (hlmuller) said : 		#8

Tony and tomrad,

No problem, glad to be of help anyway.

Harvey