Setting time between Arch+Windows 7

I have Windows 7 x64 and Arch x64 both off /dev/sda, I just finished a dual boot install this week and both working fine, but I can't get the time to be smooth on both. I followed this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Time
I have UTC in Arch (/etc/adjtime) and in Windows I added that registry entry from the Arch Wiki, however now the time in Windows is showing as 3 hours behind. I change it manually and of course it reverts shortly back to 3 hours behind. Wondering if anyone else has run into this, appreciate any help!

WonderWoofy wrote:
If you use the registry entry exemplified in the wiki to set Windows to UTC/GMT, you also have to disable the windows time service. This can be done from "services" or by simply going to whatever gui time setting thing windows has and disable auto update (or whatever they call it). Otherwise, it will tell Windows you are in UTC, but the updater will continue to update in localtime. At least this was my experience. So it was therefore easier to simply let Arch or any other non-windows (therefore UTC) system to keep the time.
The reason it suggests using your Linux install to handle time is because of daylight savings time. There is the reversal of an hour in the fall and very time sensitive programs might not react very predictably when time goes backwards. Though if your area does not have DST, this does not apply to you.
I always ran into the situation for that every additional operating system installed on the machinery, that was one more time that the clock would adjust for DST. I now solve that problem by just having Arch installed. If there are other *NIXs on the same machine they usually respect UTC.

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