GA-Z87X-UD4H and BIOS time

[BarkingGhostar]

Yesterday I noticed that the time in Windows 7 was off by exactly five hours. I know I am -5 hours off of UTC (East Coast), and this is exactly how I have it set in Windows 7. No matter what changes I made in W7 it continued to say it was Eastern timezone, but it showed the exact time as in the BIOS (UTC).

So, I went into the BIOS and changed the time to UTC-5 and booted into W7 and the time was now reporting correctly. This morning the changes I made in the BIOS were undone and again the time in the BIOS is reporting UTC. As a result, W7 reports the UTC time and not UTC-5.

I checked for BIOS updates, but the only thing it addresses is for PCIe issue. Ideas? First time I've run into this kind of problem and I've been building PCs since the early 90's.

 

[john3850]

Check your bios battery first.
I had one cheap mb that would never hold the bios clock settings for more then a few hours.
I even tried two different ps and a new battery which made no difference at all.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I just created aRealTimeIsUniversal and set the value to 1 under the

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation location and it fixed the issue.
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[vailr]

Sounds like a dual-boot Mac OSX/Windows system problem.
If you were to change your geographic location setting under OSX to London, England's time zone, that would also solve the problem.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Maybe, but the regedit worked for me.