John, this article wasn't biased toward any OS, nor about
reliability and usefulness -- it is about why Posix/UTC are
extremely important in various applications and what MS is and isn't
doing about it.
I didn't intend to start a Wintel vs anything discussion. I use
Windows and MacOSX, each for its own best applications. But I've
noticed the RTC error that occurs when I re-boot into Windows from
Mac on my Frakkintosh dual-boot machine, and this article, begun in
2004 and updated, is about that, with (if read carefully) a possible
fix which I will apply.
Best,
Dick Moore
Message: 10
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:01:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: "J. Forster" <j...@quik.com>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] UTC in Windows, and dual-booting
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
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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 three times and with every change in the Mac OS, stuff
would
cease to work. The PC is still running and still runs some legacy DOS
apps.
Case closed, IMO.
-John
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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/mswish/ut-rtc.html
Best,
Dick Moore
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