In message <000301c9a111$d8994890$89cbd9...@on.net>, Ken Wallis
writes
Mike,
I'm not sure that is still the way it works.
Windows systems may still keep time in localtime, but they have mechanisms
to compute UTC or any other localtime from that via the registry.
TZEDIT.exe is your friend.
Tha
Mike,
I'm not sure that is still the way it works.
Windows systems may still keep time in localtime, but they have mechanisms
to compute UTC or any other localtime from that via the registry.
TZEDIT.exe is your friend.
Cheers,
Ken
-Original Message-
From: On Behalf Of HENDERSON MIKE, M
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 11:12 +1300, HENDERSON MIKE, MR wrote:
> [Digression: I wonder how a VM-ed Windows environment copes with that?
> Can you have different VMs in different Time Zones on the same real
> host? Can you use VMs to 'time travel', by setting the date/time on
> one
> VM to a complete
"Why do people [with NT systems] change the system time to deal with
daylight savings changes?"
Because that's the way MS-DOS did it.
On Unix systems, the hardware clock runs in UTC, and the TZ variable is
used to determine the difference between UTC and local time (including
allowing for daylight
