In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/21/2006
at 03:48 PM, "John S. Giltner, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>1) Any OS can support the hardware clock for the platform it is
>running on to be set to local time or UTC.
Alas, no.
>It does not matter if it is a mainframe, a RISC box, PC, MAC, or any
> other computer platform. It does not matter if it is Linux, z/OS,
>AIX, HP-UX, MPE, z/VM, z/VSE, Windows, or any other OS.
Yes it does.
>I personally do not know of any comptuer system that does not have a
> 'hardware' clock (TOD, CMOS, RTC, whatever you want to call it).
The issue is semantics, not nomenclature. The PC does *NOT* have an
equivalent of the zSeries timing facilities, regardless of
nomenclature.
>As for you link below, unless somebody knows for a fact we would be
>assuming/guessing, just like you could do.
I know for a fact that you have been assuming and guessing.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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