On Fri, May 12, 2006 18:30, sjm said:
>>> Windows doesn't use or store UTC so its timezone support is purely
>>> cosmetic (hence the well known bug where the timestamps of all the
>>> files on the system shift +/- 1 hour during DST boundaries).
>
>> Thanks for your insight, but you are wrong about Windows.
>>
>> Windows uses UTC throughout internally, and the time zone setting
>> controls how the internal UTC time is presented to the user.  As the
>
> 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?

My Win XP still does that. Maybe the RTC is not internal enough for
Windoze...

--

   Björn

_______________________________________________
timekeepers mailing list
[email protected]
https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers

Reply via email to