What OS? If its Win2000 or higher, yes, there is a service (SNTP) that can pull time and date sync from the internet. Its required in w2k because of Microsoft's implementation of kerberos v5. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechn ol/windows2000serv/maintain/operate/wintime.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnw2kmag01/ html/TimeWin2K.asp http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q224799& http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q262680& http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1769.txt?number=1769 ************* Hope this helps ************* Carl Lindgren C. R. Lindgren Consulting Minneapolis, MN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Davis" <davisn at mailandnews.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 10:55 PM Subject: [TCLUG] [OT] Windows and Hardware clock in UTC > This is off-topic, but I'm wondering if anyone knows how to make windows > make sense of a hardware clock set to UTC. I have a laptop that's dual > bootable, and the Linux side uses NTP to synchronize the time, so > setting the hardware clock to UTC makes a lot of sense. However, > Windows then displays very wierd time and I can't use AFS (in windows) > because of the "time difference". It would be nice to make windows use > UTC, but if it's not possible I suppose setting the timezone to GMT > would work just as well (sans the fact that the displayed time will be > for a different timezone). Any suggestions? > > --Nathan Davis > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list