Windows 7 reverts to Central America time zone after upgrade to Parallels 6

I've been running Windows 7 in Parallels 5 for some time without issue relative to the time setting. I recently upgraded to Windows 6 and now, Windows 7 chooses to revert to the Central America time zone regardless what I do to change it. I've gone in and changed time zones manually, removed NTP, and after a reboot, it comes back up with Central America time zone. I also reinstalled Parallels Tools and nothing changes, Win7 just continues to insist I'm in Central America.



Thanks
Jim Naeve

 

I found a temporary work around until this is resolved.

After multiple troubleshooting efforts, I discovered that if I disable synchronizing time with Mac, it works just fine.

To avoid these issues do the following:

Switch your view in Parallels to "Window"
Click "Virtual Machine" in the menu bar and choose "Configure"
Choose the "Options" category and select "Advanced" from the list
Deselect the "Time:" option "Synchronize with Mac"
In Windows, open a Command Prompt screen and enter the command: [tzutil.exe /g] and determine the correct Time Zone syntax, then in the command line, enter: [tzutil.exe /s <"correct time zone syntax">]
In my case, the correct time zone setting was: [tzutil.exe /s "Central Standard Time"]

I subsequently changed my Windows 7 Internet Time settings to get the Windows 7 time from "time.apple.com" so that my time on my Windows 7 Virtual Machine is the same as my Mac or as close as possible.

This is the only way I could address this issue without actually finding a fix in the code. This should work for others too so I thought I'd post my findings here.

Good luck to anyone who is trying to resolve this same issue.

Jim Naeve
Cisco

 

http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=100860