Re: [time-nuts] UTC in Windows

2009-10-13 Thread Dick Moore
. Best, Dick Moore Message: 10 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:01:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Forster" Subject: Re: [time-nuts] UTC in Windows, and dual-booting To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Message-ID: <1869.12.6.201.154.1255464072.

Re: [time-nuts] UTC in Windows, and dual-booting

2009-10-13 Thread Magnus Danielson
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message <1869.12.6.201.154.1255464072.squir...@popacctsnew.quik.com>, "J. Fo rster" writes: To hear an Apple or a UNIX disciple tell it, Microsoft never does anything right. The fact is, Windows made personal computing bloom. They also created at lot of jobs in Sea

Re: [time-nuts] UTC in Windows, and dual-booting

2009-10-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <1869.12.6.201.154.1255464072.squir...@popacctsnew.quik.com>, "J. Fo rster" writes: >To hear an Apple or a UNIX disciple tell it, Microsoft never does anything >right. The fact is, Windows made personal computing bloom. They also created at lot of jobs in Seatle. However, none of this

Re: [time-nuts] UTC in Windows, and dual-booting

2009-10-13 Thread J. Forster
I was responding to a previous post bashing MS which passes for sport among UNIX, LINUX, and Mac fans: "There's a discussion about why MS is all wrong on this..." They are as annoying, IMO, as people who ring your door bell and try and convince you of THEIR way to salvation. -John ==

Re: [time-nuts] UTC in Windows, and dual-booting

2009-10-13 Thread bg
Hi John, What does your fascinating little story have to do with dual-booting clock troubles? M$ bashing/hailing can be done off list, IMHO. -- Björn > To hear an Apple or a UNIX disciple tell it, Microsoft never does anything > right. The fact is, Windows made personal computing bloom. > >

Re: [time-nuts] UTC in Windows, and dual-booting

2009-10-13 Thread J. Forster
To hear an Apple or a UNIX disciple tell it, Microsoft never does anything right. The fact is, Windows made personal computing bloom. I bought a Mac and a PC clone w/in a few weeks of each other in the early 90s. The PC clone cost under $2000, the Mac over $5000. The Mac hardware died at least thr

Re: [time-nuts] UTC in Windows, and dual-booting

2009-10-13 Thread Robert Lutwak
On a somewhat related note, does anyone have a replacement for the Windows clock (in the lower right corner of my screen) that displays fractional MJD ? At 03:38 PM 10/13/2009, Dick Moore wrote: Haven't seen this discussed here, but I think it's interesting. Seems Windows uses local time, wh

Re: [time-nuts] UTC in Windows, and dual-booting

2009-10-13 Thread Robert Lutwak
On a somewhat related note, does anyone have a replacement for the Windows clock (in the lower right corner of my screen) that displays fractional MJD ? At 03:38 PM 10/13/2009, Dick Moore wrote: Haven't seen this discussed here, but I think it's interesting. Seems Windows uses local time, wh

[time-nuts] UTC in Windows, and dual-booting

2009-10-13 Thread Dick Moore
Haven't seen this discussed here, but I think it's interesting. Seems Windows uses local time, whereas MacOSX and Linux, as well as other OSes use Posix/UTC. There's a discussion about why MS is all wrong on this, with a possible Win fix using regedit http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswi