Inquiring Minds

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:36:46AM -0800, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
> Using GMT (UTC) internally with the choice of PST or PDT happening at
[snip]
> Unfortunately, Windows doesn't support anything sane like this and requires
> that the hardware clock have its timezone changed twice a year (from GMT-7

According to a couple of posts in the most recent RISKS digest
( ftp://ftp.sri.com/risks/risks-22.35 ), I'm wrong about this for "Windows"
in general. 

Windows 2000 (and I guess XP..  NT, too?) supposedly do have support for (or
default to?) using GMT in the BIOS clock; it's primarily Windows 98/95 and
other DOS based versions of Windows that have the problem of timezone
handling being implemented on top of a system that doesn't know about
timezones at all (DOS).
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