[X4U] Time zone System Preferences bug (MacBook Pro/Boot Camp)

[Jens Selvig]

Have you tried turning off the auto time setting on the Mac side?  
Perhaps an Automater task set up to turn Airport Connection on, set  
the time and then turn the Airport connection off?

Would it be possible for you to use Parallels and not Boot Camp?

I have a friend running Parralles which seems to work fine for him.  
He has some sort of Windows only credit card app that is not  
available for the 'lowly' Mac platform. I've been thinking of  
installing Parallels on my MacPro, but I have yet to find a Windows  
app that I can't live without, so it would just be an academic  
process for me.

An observation I have had is that a lot of the PC users I know don't  
really like the 'new' appearance that IE7 offers them. I am not sure  
of the  functionality the "7" update provides.

Jens
...lost in Montana...


On Jan 24, 2007, at 6:08 AM, Jim Robertson wrote:

> This problem has been reported by many, and supposedly it reflects  
> something
> about the way Windows and Mac OS store time differently in non- 
> volatile RAM
> when the machine is powered down. Supposedly Apple had fixed this  
> in the
> later versions of Boot Camp. When I'm in Windows, it's to run a  
> medical
> application that WILL NOT RUN except in Internet Exploder for  
> Windows (I
> think there's poetic justice in the fact that although the developers
> carefully crafted it for the "universal" browser, it blows up in  
> IE7 (and
> I'm aware of VERY large enterprises facing similar problems after  
> Windows
> Update sneaks IE7 onto users' machines).
>
> I don't use WiFi a lot on my laptop when I'm in Mac OS, so I keep  
> Airport
> turned off for whatever little bit of battery life extension that  
> will give
> me. Consequently, I think what happens is that when I'm in Windows,  
> the
> servers provide the correct time. If I reboot into Mac OS without  
> plugging
> in my ethernet cable, I have no internet access and my clock thinks  
> I'm in
> London (actually it still says "Cupertino" in my System Prefs). The  
> thing
> that Apple could do better is provide an alert dialog that says "I  
> can't do
> that, Dave" when I try to correct the time by asking the computer  
> to look up
> the correct time but don't HAVE internet access. Eventually I'll  
> figure that
> out, but it's confusing, because SOME internet services (like the  
> WWW become
> available automatically if I turn on Airport or plug in the  
> ethernet cable,
> no matter how I have my "Location" set up, but others (such as  
> email) are
> pickier and demand that all the syntax in my Location preference  
> match.
> Access to the time server seems to behave more like access to email  
> servers,
> if that makes any sense.