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Re: [SLE] Daylight Saving time change?
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:44:06 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611011436320.14864@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 08:21 -0500, James Knott wrote:
> > Caution UTC messes up the clock if you multiboot with windows.
>
> No, UTC does not mess up the clock. Windows messes up, because it's so
> clueless.
It is not clueless. They just decided to use local time when Dos was small
and single tasked, and has stuck with it in windows. A wrong decision
nowdays, of course. Probably maintained for compatibility, and I guess it
complicates things for them. The same as many decisions they took
initially, of course.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 08:21 -0500, James Knott wrote:
> > Caution UTC messes up the clock if you multiboot with windows.
>
> No, UTC does not mess up the clock. Windows messes up, because it's so
> clueless.
It is not clueless. They just decided to use local time when Dos was small
and single tasked, and has stuck with it in windows. A wrong decision
nowdays, of course. Probably maintained for compatibility, and I guess it
complicates things for them. The same as many decisions they took
initially, of course.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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