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Everybody dual booting Windows and Linux (or any other *nix derivative) surely has different hours when booting back to Windows from Linux. Well, that's because Windows manages the clock in "local time" instead of UTC which is what most other OSes do (such as Linux). According to this Lifehack (http://lifehacker.com/5742148/fix-windows-clock-issues-when-dual-booting-with-os-x) there's a workaround in order to force Windows to use UTC. It's a simple registry entry that starts working as soon as you reboot your PC back into Windows. I'll copy it here for posterity in case LH ever runs into trouble and disappears. Search for: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation Right click anywhere in the right pane and hit "New > DWORD (32-bit) Value". Name it "RealTimeIsUniversal". Double click on it and give it a value of "1". That's it. Just reboot back into Windows and check that (if your cloc...

Taken from http://defaultreasoning.com/2009/11/16/synchronize-time-with-external-ntp-server-on-windows-server-2008-r2/ Kept here just for archiving purposes. All credits to them. 1 - First, from your computer open a command prompt and run "C:\>netdom /query fsmo" to locate your PDC Server. 2 - Then log in to your PDC Server and open the command prompt. 3 - Stop the W32Time service: C:\>net stop w32time 4 - Configure the external time sources, type: C:\> w32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual /manualpeerlist:”0.pool.ntp.org, 1.pool.ntp.org, 2.pool.ntp.org” 4a - May need to poke with the " and the , on the previous command. 5 - Make your PDC a reliable time source for the clients. Type: C:\>w32tm /config /reliable:yes 6 - Start the w32time service: C:\>net start w32time 7 - The windows time service should begin synchronizing the time. You can check the external NTP servers in the time configuration by typing: C:\>w32tm /query /configuration 8 -...