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How To Fix Windows and Linux Showing Different Times When Dual Booting

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How To Fix Windows and Linux Showing Different Times When Dual Booting

Make Linux Use Local time

By Default Windows looks time store in local time while Linux assumes time is stored in UTC time. This step work in Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Debian, Mint and other Linux Distributin that uses systemd.

  • First open the terminal by using CTRL + ALT + T

  • To Make Linux Store Time in Local Storage

    timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock
    
  • To Check your current settings, run:

    timedatectl
    

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  • To Undo the above changes, run:
    timedatectl set-local-rtc 0 --adjust-system-clock
    

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