{"id":215,"date":"2014-08-01T19:54:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T19:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2014-11-23T17:42:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T17:42:16","slug":"windows-7-rtc-using-utc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/2014\/08\/01\/windows-7-rtc-using-utc\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 &#8211; RTC using UTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so this is more a note for my future self than anything interesting, but basically, to force Windows to keep the computer&#8217;s RTC at UTC (required if dual-booting Linux, and also just in general makes sense), adjust the following registry key:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>Key: HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\TimeZoneInformation\\RealTimeIsUniversal\r\nType: DWORD\r\nValue: 1 (RTC is in UTC) , 0 (RTC is in local time (default)<\/pre>\n<p>Alternatively, save the following as a registry key file (.reg), and import it into your registry:<\/p>\n<pre><code>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00\r\n\r\n[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\TimeZoneInformation]\r\n\"RealTimeIsUniversal\"=dword:00000001<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so this is more a note for my future self than anything interesting, but basically, to force Windows to keep the computer&#8217;s RTC at UTC (required if dual-booting Linux, and also just in general makes sense), adjust the following registry key: &nbsp; Key: HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\TimeZoneInformation\\RealTimeIsUniversal Type: DWORD Value: 1 (RTC is in UTC) , 0 (RTC is in local time (default) Alternatively, save the following as a registry key file (.reg), and import it into your registry: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\TimeZoneInformation] &#8220;RealTimeIsUniversal&#8221;=dword:00000001 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,29,31],"tags":[12,37,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}