sjm wrote:
Interesting. When did this change? I remember having a dual boot
system that would get screwed up whenever I booted into the other system
because I had set the Linux system to use UTC. Whenever I booted into
Windows it would set the time incorrectly (by the UTC offset). That
seemed to say to me that Windows uses local time rather than UTC. Did
this change or was I wrong?
These are different issues.
Windows (nowadays, with NTFS, not with FAT) keeps file times in UTC.
But the "CMOS clock" of the PC is still kept in local time. This is a
bad design decision, probably motivated by backward compatability.
At each DST change, the CMOS clock is actually moved forward or
backward. This indeed seriously confuses dual-boot systems.
(configurations with multiple copies of Windows are similarly affected)
I think there is some secret registry value to keep the clock in UTC,
but it is not as obviously visible to the user as in most Linux systems.
David wrote:
> I don't recall any problem here in Europe in 1995 with Windows 95,
but in any case they toy versions of Windows had too many compromises
for my linking. I've been using Windows NT and its derivatives since
1992...
Well, I don't want to brag about what I have been using myself and since
when, it is just an issue that I ran into while managing the networks at
the companies where I work(ed).
Rob
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