Dual booting Windows 7 and Zorin OS -- System clock changing fix

E-mails I posted in the Zorin OS forum...


Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:55 am
I have Windows 7 installed on one hard drive and Zorin OS 64-bit installed on another hard drive. I'll boot using Zorin and notice that the clock is not displaying the correct time. However, I'll wait a 2-3 minutes and the time displays correctly. However, when I boot back to use Windows 7, the clock is showing the incorrect time. The clock seems to change everytime I switch back and forth from using Windows 7 to Zorin and vice-versa. Any suggestions?

Also, when I select the start menu and do a search for Date and Time (or it could be Time and Date), I notice that there are two items of Date and Time displaying.



Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:13 am

SOLUTION:

     sudo gedit /etc/default/rcS


Once in the file, find UTC=yes. Change the line to read UTC=no. Save file. Reboot computer.

I have had no more system clock problems after this simple fix when dual booting between Windows 7 and Zorin OS 5.2 (64-bit).

If you want more information on this topic, see the following links which were very helpful to me in explaining this particular problem.
http://www.linuxandlife.com/2012/05/change-hardware-clock-to-local-time-in.html
http://mikebeach.org/2011/04/10/windows-linux-dual-boot-system-time-issues/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime#Make_Linux_use_.27Local.27_time