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what part is breaking my windows clock? i have to reset it with every reboot. do i change it in my bios so windows will be right and linux will be wrong, then tell linux to fix itself? because windows time sync setting sure as hell never actually syncs the time automatically.

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The issue is that Linux sets the bios to UTC, while windows wants the bios to be local time zone.

I just do a regedit in windows to fix it. But you can do the change in either OS

> The issue is that Linux sets the bios to UTC, while windows wants the bios to be local time zone.

UTC is the default in many Linux distributions, but I wouldn't say "Linux sets the bios to UTC"; I've only ever seen it be an explicit choice.

You can always go full there-is-only-Zulu and set the Windows timezone to UTC. (insert head-tapping meme here)

That would fuck over any relative time calculations in calendars (including meetings in google calendar) though wouldn't it?

It shouldn't; I don't use Google Calendar at the moment but Outlook seems to have no problems with people in multiple time zones all seeing the correct time for a meeting.

Here's a nice article on how to do the fix, https://www.howtogeek.com/323390/how-to-fix-windows-and-linu...

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