fiddymac said:
Does anyone know how to fix the time issue when booting to Windows (I have it set to update from the Internet, but I is usually off and I have to go into the setting and do "update now" to get it to work that way)? I know that i saw some registry edit that looked pretty promising, but I can't find it now...
I tried the regedit thing, and it worked, but it also threw off all scheduled tasks in the Task Scheduler. It seemed that Windows has a bug there wrt to that registry key.
Another thing I tried was forcing the Windows Time updater to run at startup. You can change the scheduled task in Task Scheduler to run at startup. The problem there is that it won't work if you boot your computer while not connected to the internet. Quite possible while travelling.
There is also a local time adjuster that runs at startup and shutdown on the Mac side. You can copy it to your desktop Tools folder using the v4 installer, then follow the install instructions. I haven't tried that solution yet, but it seems if your Mac side crashes for any reason, then the shutdown code won't execute, but when you restart the startup code will and your clock will be off (also if you boot into Windows after a Mac crash, your clock will be off). When I have time, I plan to write some scripts that work around that on both the Windows and Mac side but haven't had time as of yet.
What I do instead of all these is set the Mac to not update the time, and set it to UTC instead of the local time (Reykjavík, Iceland). This probably screws up time stamps on files, because my clock is clearly not set to UTC, it is set to PDST (which is 7 hours behind UTC)... But so far, no bad issues because of that.
