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

[bg at lysator.liu.se]

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.
>
> 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
>
> =============
>
>> 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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