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Squameki3
Jul 08, 2026Brass Contributor
System Clock Warping After Dual-Boot
The system clock jumps forward or backward by exactly 4, 5, or 8 hours every time you boot back into Windows from Linux or macOS, due to one OS treating hardware clock as UTC while Windows treats it ...
Jamony
Jul 08, 2026MCT
Hi, this is usually Windows and Linux/macOS disagreeing about whether the hardware clock is local time or UTC. Pick one standard. Many dual-boot users set Windows to UTC with RealTimeIsUniversal=1, then resync Windows time. The key is making both systems stop “correcting” the clock differently