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

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Oct 13 20:54:49 UTC 2009


In message <1869.12.6.201.154.1255464072.squirrel at 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 has anything to do with timekeeping, where Microsoft
clearly screwed up big time, by running the RTC clock on local timezone.

Their numerous other screw-ups with respect to time confirms that this
is not just one time unlucky.

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