Time difference between Win98 and Fedora

Michael Jezierski - Systec Conveyors mjezierski at systecconveyors.com
Wed Sep 22 13:16:02 UTC 2004


Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 06:30, Hairysocks wrote:
>  
>
>>I have a dual-boot PC and notice that I can't get the time
>>correct on both Win98 and Fedora. When the Win98 time is correct
>>then the time on Fedora is one hour ahead.
>>
>>I'm sure its got something to do with British Summer Time / GMT,
>>and that we are currently in BST, but I can't see how to get it
>>correct.
>>
>>Can anyone help me?
>>
>>Rob
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>
>IMHO, you can suffer with the difference, or do not use DST.
>
>Windows resets system time with the daylight savings time changes (twice
>a year).  Linux leaves system time alone and makes the change in
>software to display DST.  When you do dual boot in an environment where
>DST is used you will see this discrepancy.
>
>I know of no way to make the two systems play nice together as relates
>to time.
>
>  
>
Or live somewhere that does not observe DST :-)
[and I hope it stays that way!]

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