24 P0P?QP5P;Q 2012B P3. 20:05 P?P>P;Q P7P>P2P0QP5P;Q Matthew Dempsky <[email protected]> P=P0P?P8QP0P;: > 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.
Agree. :) Thanks for all the info and your work! -- WBR, Vadim Zhukov
