On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Peter Hessler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012 Apr 24 (Tue) at 16:27:00 +0400 (+0400), Vadim Zhukov wrote: > :This will somewhat break dual-booting machines with Windblows as > :second OS. :( But I'm not a developer and do not have any vote, of > :course. :)
Ugh. I didn't realize Windows still expects the RTC to be local time by default. > Windows 7 does not have that limitation, you can configure it to use UTC > as the BIOS clock. It looks like Markus Kuhn has a FAQ about Windows, the RTC, and UTC: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html TL;DR: Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7 support setting the RTC to UTC, but your system might become unresponsive during DST changes... idiots. I'm inclined to say our FAQ (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#TimeZone) should instruct Windows users to just set RealTimeIsUniversal and bring any issues to Microsoft to fix rather than working around the issue with kernel timezone support. It doesn't make sense for us to continue complicating things just to workaround their broken design. Microsoft has had 10+ years to make this setting work.
