Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Dual Booting Windows and Linux can be cool, until it breaks the time clock on your PC/Laptop!

Dual Booting Windows and Linux can be cool because you can have both software worlds and be able to run any program you want based on what you need, but its cool until it breaks the time clock on your PC/Laptop!

have you noticed when you boot into windows its over hours of difference then what it should be?

The reason why this is happening is because Linux is using the Universal Time Clock while Microsoft Windows is using the local time clock.

The best and easy way to fix this would be to set Linux use the Local Time as well instead of the Universal Time Clock.

as long as your Linux is Debian based you should be able to open the terminal and run the following command

timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock

Then to check and see if the the settings have properly been applied then type

timedatectl

Now if you see RTC (Regional Time Clock) in local TZ (Time Zone) and it states YES beside it then your are all set, and when you reboot into windows should you need to change the time again it should be for the last time and not be impacted again! 


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