Questions tagged [utc]
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How to isolate why my system date is going crazy?
The date on my x86 machine is going crazy. When I boot, it's in 1980 (as expected since the CMOS battery is dead). So I NTP sync it with no problems. Some time later (within a few hours, and even ...
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Windows 7 set to UTC RTC forcibly changes time
I really want to make Windows 7 understand that RTC in using UTC instead of local time. I found a solution, except for it does not play well with time synchronization.
I have:
Modified the registry ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 x32 - Windows 7 Pro x64 dual boot - clock is wrong (UTC)
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 ...
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Windows 7 Time Keeps Changing by 5 hours
I currently have Windows 7 set to use UTC in the hardware clock using this registry hack:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\...
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Does Windows 8 support UTC as BIOS time?
Is there any way to use Windows 8 with time in UTC in BIOS? I know there is a way to do it in Windows 7 (in this question: Does Windows 7 support UTC as BIOS time?), but this solution makes my system ...
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Running Webapp on Mac in UTC (either changing MacBook timezone or tomcat timezone)
To run my web app, I need to set my timezone to UTC on my MacBook. I can do this temporarily by opening a Konsole and entering
sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime
However, my timezone ...
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Windows 7 wake from sleep and UTC?
I've been having problems with windows 7 waking from sleep after one minute or so on my laptop. I also have ArchLinux installed on this computer. A while back I tried a registry tweak to get windows ...
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How to change the date of Linux to UTC/GMT +1?
I need to change the date of my system. I'm running a Linux CentOS 5.6.
# date +%Z
UTC
# date
Thu Oct 6 11:42:45 UTC 2011
How do I change the hour to be UTC/GMT +1?
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Set Windows to use system clock as UTC
While dual-booting Windows and Linux, Linux sets the system time to UTC, so Windows thinks it's midnight near mid-morning. Is there any other way to tell Windows to use UTC? I've seen the registry ...
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Windows computer keeps updating to UTC time
I have a new Dell computer running Windows 7 x64 (and no other OS). I live in Mountain Time, as my computer is aware (it says Mountain Time in the Date and Time window, from right-clicking on the ...
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Does Windows 7 support UTC as BIOS time?
Since I live in Germany, my timezone is GMT+1 (or GMT+2 in the summertime period).
Previous Windows versions were not able to have the hardware clock set to UTC, and the Windows time to the local ...
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Windows XP clock set incorrectly after resume from sleep
I dual boot Linux and Windows XP on my laptop. I added the following registry key in XP to support Universal Time from the BIOS:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\...
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How do email servers handle timestamps?
I'm using Thunderbird as my email client to check a Gmail account.
I get a lot of emails from family who are located in different time zones. Now, my emails don't arrive out of order, but the ...
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