Re: Time not holding in Parallels Desktop

On Feb 26, 3:51 pm, johndbu...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 25, 4:06 am, Harald Hanche-Olsen <han...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



+ johndbu...@xxxxxxxxx:

| Her iMac is set to US Central StandardTimeandkeepstimeperfectly,
| it syncs with Apple'stimeservers. WinXP withinParallels, however,
|keepsshifting BACKWARDS by seven hours, and it's only if I set it to
| Central EuropeanTime(GMT+1) that it remains in Sync with the actual
|timein this part of the US. It'll be REALLY interesting once the new
| Daylight SavingTimerules hit....
|
| Has anyone seen this behavior before? Any suggestions? Thanks!

I don't have any exlanations or suggestions, but would like to point
out an anomaly. You're posting from the +0800timezone. That would
be Pacifictime, right? Now the Mac, being a Unixmachineand all,
would keep its software clock as well as the hardware clock in UTC
(modern name for GMT) and convert between that and localtimeas
needed, while Windowskeepsits clock (software and hardware) in local
time. Now wonder you get into trouble when the two are to coexist on
the samemachine. However, yourtimezone being what it is, I would
have thought Windows would think the hardware clock represents local
time, thereby ending up eight hours ahead, not seven hours behind.
And of course, Central EuropeanTimeis nine hours ahead of you, and
that make even less sense. I can't get these numbers to add up to a
nice multiple of 12, even.

I can only guess thatParallels, which surely must do something to
reconcile the two ways to deal with the clock, either has screwed up
the calculation, or there is a configuration option inParallelsthat
you have overlooked.

--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell

The messages are probably posting on PST because it's going through
Google Groups. Aside from that, the computer andvirtualmachine(and
myself) all reside firmly in CST.

I haven't seen anything obvious for Date andTimewithinParallels
settings.

Hello ~

Not sure if you'll get this, but did you ever figure this problem out?
I'm having the exact same problem (but by 6 hours, perhaps because of
day light savings)

This problem is extremely annoying as I'll change the clock and
several seconds later it changes back. This is also havoc on my
outlook account & calendars...

Thank you a ton for any advice!

joe

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