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Assuming you're dualbooting Linux and a Windows version: Linux keeps the RTC in UTC by default while Windows expects localtime and can't handle the conversion from UTC transparently if required. Configure Linux to use localtime as well to avoid surprise as that's easier than the other way round.

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I used a live-cd and the whole point of those is that you can try an OS without that OS changing your system. Localtime should be the default configuration and not something the user has to figure out after getting fucked by it.

edit: Or at least give a big warning when changing your users PC clock!!!

How would you go about doing that? I get the feeling that it's just one change in an obscure config file

Better to set everything to use UTC

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/time#UTC_in_Windows

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