12 Nov
2010
12 Nov
'10
21:01
Greg Freemyer wrote:
The crazy part is that it seems the basic windows design calls for the user to change their bios clock every time they change timezones. That is just hard for me to believe.
That goes back to the DOS days, before portable or networked computers. In fact, back in those days, a hardware clock was an option and not built into the motherboard. Back then they were primarily worried about file time & date and not much more. With Linux & Unix, GMT was used from the start, perhaps because it was developed at a telecommunications company, where GMT is commonly used. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org