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I have a problem with time when booting windows after linux. The reason is that Ubuntu saves hw clock as UTC but Windows 7 expects it to be saved as localtime. So Windows shows time that is one hour before correct local time.
- UTC time: 3:35PM
- Local time (UTC+1): 4:35PM
- Ubuntu time: 4:35PM
- Windows time: 3:35PM (it shows time that equals to UTC because it expects hw clock to be localtime)
I followed this advice:
To make MS Windows calculate the time from the hardware clock as UTC. Via regedit: Run regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation Right-click in the right-side panel and select New > DWORD Value. Create the key named RealTimeIsUniversal and give it a value of 1.
After restarting, windows shows time that is 1 hour ahead. My timezone is UTC+1 but time is set to UTC+2. If I set timezone to UTC, time is correct.
- UTC time: 3:35PM
- Local time (UTC+1): 4:35PM
- Ubuntu time: 4:35PM
- Windows time: 5:35PM (it shows time that equals to UTC+2 but timezone is set to UTC+1)
Setting ubuntu to save hw clock as localtime solves the problem with time but I want to have hw clock set to UTC.
Any suggestions?
Thx in advance and sorry for my bad english :)
darthcz
Posted 2013-03-16T17:15:26.513
Reputation: 31
1This applies to my Ubuntu 15.10 and Windows 10 64bit as well. I'd suggest that you write your solution into an answer and then accept it. – thoni56 – 2016-02-29T20:45:19.400
This may be a dumb question, but did you verify in Windows there is no daylight savings setting? That would account for an hour. Sorry, my only idea! – nerdwaller – 2013-03-16T20:46:36.010
1Yes, I did but that is not the problem... Finally, I found a solution. It is very easy. After I had changed settings in regedit and restarted the pc, Windows wrote localtime to hw clock. After booting to windows, it started to use UTC so time was wrong. I just needed to boot linux that wrote UTC time to hw clock and then boot to windows and time is correct. – darthcz – 2013-03-16T23:48:00.550