Time

[shankle]

The TIME in my Windows partition on HD 1 keeps changing.  Ah but you say my battery is dead. 1st, the Puter is only one year old.
2nd, when I go into the 2nd HD with Ubuntu the time is correct. I did a scan of the Windows HD and it found no baddies.
I'm almost bald now so any more scratching of the head would be disastrous.
Thanks for any pointers.

[BlackVortex]

There is a setting for windows to get the time online, isn't it ? Maybe something to so with that ?

Check your time zone also.

[shankle]

Thanks for replying.
The time is off by 7 hours. The minutes are OK. The AM/PM is reversed.
Will check for settings in Windows.

[shankle]

Went into Windows Vista control panel and looked under time.
The window that came up was called "Internet Time Settings"
There was a check mark on Synchronize with an Internet Time Server.
I have NO idea how this got checked but it is unchecked now.
Hope this fixes the problem.

[MichaelW]

If only the hour is off, I would suspect a time zone problem.

[shankle]

No it was the hours and the AM/PM.
Don't you just love it when things get changed and you never figure out why.
I'm going into Windows next so I'll soon know if taking out the check in the
"Synchronize with an Internet Time Server" did the trick.

[shankle]

Nope, the time still changed by 7 hours.
In the Control Panel in Synchronise with an Internet Time Server I see
additional settings such as:
           time.windows.com
           time.nist.gov
           time-nw.nist.gov
           time-a.nist.gov
No matter which one I turned on and updated the time did not
change.
I am set for this time zone (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

This has something (I think) to do with windows and synchronization.
I swear I changed nothing.

[Tedd]

Windows assumes your CMOS clock represents local time, Linux assumes it's GMT (and displays its time corrected by your timezone settings.)
Fix the time zone settings in Ubuntu [System->Administration->Time and Date], then put the clock to the correct time..
Also make sure you've set the correct time zone in Windows too.


(There did used to be an explicit option to say whether you wanted to use Local or System time - for this exact reason - but it seems to work automatically now.)

[shankle]

Going from Ubuntu to Vista alters the BIOS date.
I have gone in Ubuntu into "System | Administration | Time and date" and was unable to change anything
there as it is all greyed out. Probably the only thing I can change there is the date.
Ubuntu is definitely causing the problem.