unruh wrote:
On 2012-03-14, David J Taylor<david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
"unruh"<un...@invalid.ca> wrote in message
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Did you shut down and restart your computer? Did you perchance do this
during the daylight savings time transition on a Windows system? Could
the error be related to the fact that Windows like time on localtime not
UTC?
Windows uses UTC internally, not local time. Local time is simply a
presentation layer issue. Windows is unaffected by a DST transition.
That must be new, since windows certainly used to maintain system time
as local time. Caused numberous headaches for people using both Windows
and Linux.
Windows expects the CMOS BIOS clock to be in local time (which is the
opposite from Linux), but then converts this twice: First to UTC in
order to be able to use the NTP protocol, and to timestamp file updates
with UTC, but then it converts back to local time for almost all
timekeeping functions.
There is a Registry key which is supposed to allow Windows to use UTC in
CMOS, but the only time I tried this (many years ago) it was somewhat
broken.
Terje
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- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"
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