[ale] rdesktop to Windows Server - Time Zone Off

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 18:44:41 EDT 2012


I've always seen winders storing BIOS time in local time. Drove me nuts.
There's a way to flag a Linux system to recognize it's got a local-time
bios clock. I didn't know winders had one as well.

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:32 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> On 03/12/2012 12:52 PM, Scott Steele wrote:
> > So the pesky timezone thing has gotten to us.
> >
> > The times on our Linux workstations and servers are showing correctly
> via date
> > command and ntpd is running. However, whenever we connect via rdesktop
> to our
> > Windows servers, the server time shows an hour behind below on the lower
> right
> > hand. Whenever we connect using a windows PC, the time on the server in
> correct.
> >
> > Anyone else have a similar issue like this?
> >
>
> I don't know about your specific issue, but I've seen that BIOS clocks
> store
> time either in UTC or local format.  Windows supports both and I've
> discovered
> that all the years ago when I was dual booting, when Windows was not set
> to UTC,
> there would be time display issues.
>
> Just a thought.
>
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