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Correct your time automatically when booting XP Boot Camp

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Correct your time automatically when booting XP Boot Camp
By javester
05-09-2006

Because OS X and XP handle date and time differently, on initial boot into XP coming from OS X, the time is off by a few hours.

Apple suggest opening the Date/Time control panel applet and hitting "Update Now" in the Internet Time tab. If you switch frequently between OSs like me (to sneak in a session of Civ IV every now and then), this gets old fast.

To make this automatic, I created a STARTUP.CMD file in my Windows directory with this line:

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c:\windows\system32\w32tm.exe /resync /nowait

W32TM is the command-line interface to Windows Time Service. The /resync parameter tells Windows to resynchronize with the configured time server (by default, time.windows.com) as soon as possible.

The /nowait parameter tells W32TM not to wait for a confirmation that the time has been resynced.

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