Syncronizing windows with linux?

[John Abreau]

It's been a long time since I tried this, but I recall that when a machine
dual-boots XP and Linux, and Linux is properly set up to treat the
hardware clock as UTC, then the two OSes step on each other's
clocks. XP insists on the local clock being set to the local timezone.

It's been years since I set up a dual-boot system, so this could have
changed by now.




On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:03 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose-prQxUZoa2zOsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 10/09/2009 02:56 PM, Stephen Adler wrote:
>> Do you guys know if one can use the native windows time synchronization
>> system to sync the time of a windows xp system to a linux system running
>> ntpd? Or does one need to install ntp on the windows system?
>>
>> Thanks. Steve.
>
> XP has an ntp client built-in (I think).  Double-click on the clock in
> your system tray, and then click on the tab that (I think) says
> "Internet time" (or some such - I don't have an XP box in front of me
> right now).  On that tab you can enter an NTP server to sync with.
>
> One thing to note:  the NTP sync frequency on windows is set very long
> (1 hour, IIRC) and there's no GUI to change it.  It can be changed
> through a registry entry, though.  (I switched mine to sync every 5
> minutes.)  You can google on it for details.
>
> HTH,
>
> DR
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