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my mac displays wrong time after bootcamp

Greetings,

this happens every time i use my bootcamp, then back to mac and my time displays incorrectly. my settings are set date & time automatically. how do i fix this?, somebody pls help me.

am sorry if this has been answered already.

thank you in advance

2007 iMac 20", Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Dec 17, 2008 10:09 AM

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Posted on Dec 17, 2008 11:16 PM

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.
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Dec 19, 2008 4:23 AM in response to jeanepaul_

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.
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Dec 19, 2008 4:28 AM in response to jeanepaul_

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.
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Jan 28, 2009 4:58 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

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
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my mac displays wrong time after bootcamp

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