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
