On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> said: > > The problems might occur when the system crashes after a DST change and > > the clock hasn't been saved to the hardware clock. > > That's why you should always set the hardware to UTC. Local time (and > DST) is then just an OS setting. > > This doesn't really work well if you dual boot Windows though, because > it doesn't understand that (you just have to set your time zone to UTC > and do the offset yourself when you need local time). Or wear a watch 8^). One subtlety I just discovered is that in Windows, *every user* gets to decide if they are going to adjust for DST or not. I had administrator set right, and I couldn't figure out for ages why I still kept gaining an hour across Windows boots. I also just discovered that WinXP can run an NTP service. Just double-click on the clock and choose the "Internet Time" tab. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
