When I log into Linux, the clock is all wrong, but my clock on XP stays the same. I looked at other threads on this message board for help and tried some of people's suggestions: hwclock --localtime --systohc However, when I did that, nothing changed...So I manually changed the time, but when I logged back into XP, the XP clock was ahead by 12 hours!! What can I do to fix this? I'm running Mandrake 9.1 with the KDE desktop - Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. Steady

Yes, this can be quite confusing as first but it is really simple. First you have to determine how to clock is behaving... Check if the time changes by some hours every time you reboot, also keep checking the time in your BIOS when you do this... This should give you an idea what your linux box is doing... Then check if your timezone and the UTC is set to your preference (UTC=1 means hardware clock is set to GMT, 0 means local time), So you can set this according to what you want to set in your bios. If bios is set to local time then it will be displayed as it is, otherwise it will add/subtract your timezone from it. Basically, I am 90% sure that if you just set UTC=0 and reboot and set the correct time in your bios, your time will display right.

i have a similar problem with my xp and linux... on xp, the clock is set to gmt, so it should be daylight saving time, ok? now, everytime i switch to linux and then back to windows, the clock is delayed by an hour. I tried to sort this out, but no luck at all...anyone?? thx in adv

That means when linux shuts down it changes the clock, so you have the same problem as SteadyLoungin05

I always just set my clock in the bios. The daylight savings time feature did not work in Gnu/Linux but did in XP. So I just went into the bios on my linux box and reset the time. No dual boot for me.