So, at or around 1981 (the year I was born) there was a cool concept. IBM was selling "personal computers" (IBM-PC compatible later became a thing) and by the time I was old enough to operate a modem, I had one myself. Life was good.
Wonder if there is any sensible way to petition microsoft to fix this stupid mistake dating back to the DOS era. Windows 8 / metro is out now, and I can't bloody stand the changes. Would be nice if windows 7 had an update to fix this issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687252 Article ID: 2687252 - Last Review: March 13, 2012 - Revision: 4.0 APPLIES TO Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Windows XP Professional Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 Windows Vista Business Windows Vista Enterprise Windows Vista Home Premium Windows Vista Ultimate Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Windows 7 Enterprise Windows 7 Home Basic Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Ultimate Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Windows Server 2008 Standard Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 ... Pretty sure that's 100% of all recent versions of windows. The whole thing started because windows 3.1 / 95 / 98 / 2000 / ME / etc. etc. etc. were all targeted with being backward compatible with the previous OS leading all the way back to DOS (first versions of DOS were coming out in 1981 the year I was born) For where I live, this weekend is the "change your clocks" for the fall... or don't, or do something else... petition microsoft maybe? I'd love for windows 7 to have a fix for this since I'm not upgrading to the horrible looking windows 8 --- windows 7 will be in extended support until 2020 (( reference: http://goo.gl/unxvj )) so I figure let's try to get them to fix it in the next few years. I'm serious about this. Let's fix this timezone problem!!! Pretty much every other operating system vendor out there (various POSIX platforms including more than one version of BSD, linux and even mac OSX since under the hood it is a POSIX based operating system) it is an option to leave the hardeware real-time-clock (bios clock) on UTC. Ok that's all I'm typing on this. Angry at several of my clocks today, Sarah White _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
