my mac displays wrong time after bootcamp

Many people have had issues like yours. Apple hasn't come up with a fix for this, so you just have to wait like other people.

It is unlikely that this will ever be fixed. OS X stores the time in hardware in UTC (GMT). Windows stores the time in hardware in your local time. Neither OS is going to change the way that it stores time in hardware. When you return to OS X, click on the time and then on Open Date & Time. The time will be corrected.

Windows can be set to use UTC.

Set the following registry key (it does not exist!)

HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/TimeZoneInformation/RealTimeIsUniversal (REG_DWORD = 1)

In the control panel with Day&Time settings, check the "automatically adjust" check box.

Opening Date & Time doesn't fix the time for me...only manually setting it helps, and this is quite annoying.

Hello,

Try posting in the Bootcamp Forum: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237



Carolyn 🙂

Thanks Malcolm, that works for me. However, when I go to standby mode (e.g. close the lid without shutdown), and return to Win. The time is wrong again. Wonder if there is anything else we can do.

This problem frequently happens to me, and I don't use Bootcamp or Windows on my iMac.

If I put the computer to sleep and wake it up the next day, the clock is stuck on whatever time the computer went to sleep. If I hover the mouse over the clock in the upper right, I see the spinning ball instead of the mouse pointer.

Sometimes the correct time shows on its own, and other times I have to restart the machine to force the time to change.

Eddie

this is an very bad problems for sending emails they are all on the wrong time send out, so people in my office receive the email from a time to early so the email is place behind the new once they get 😟